Package: util-linux
Version: 2.27.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The sfdisk man page documents using --dump to dump partitions of a
system and later restore them by feeding them to sfdisk from the
standard input.
The format of this dump has changed in the rewrite in version 2.26, and
thus a dump generated by Stretch cannot be used by Jessie.
New versions seem to be able to use old dumps.
A simple cwscript I use here to convert new format to old:
sed \
-e 's/type=/Id=/' \
-e '/^label:/d' \
-e '/^label-id:/d' \
-e '/^device:/d' \
#
Is dumping and restoring accross versions supported?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2
ii libblkid1 2.27.1-1
ii libc6 2.19-22
ii libfdisk1 2.27.1-1
ii libmount1 2.27.1-1
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20151024-1
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2+b1
ii libsmartcols1 2.27.1-1
ii libsystemd0 227-2
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-1
ii libudev1 227-2
ii libuuid1 2.27.1-1
ii lsb-base 9.20150917
ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.2
ii tzdata 2015g-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
util-linux recommends no packages.
Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-70
ii dosfstools 3.0.28-2
ii util-linux-locales 2.27.1-1
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