Hi. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:44:57PM +0200, solitone wrote: > On 26/09/17 17:31, Reco wrote: > > > On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote: > > > > It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk: > > > > > > > > ========================================================= > > > > [ 6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks: > > > > (96.6 GB/90.0 GiB) > > > > [ 6.469182] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > > > > [ 6.482421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: > > > > enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > > > > ========================================================= > > > > > > > > However, it then complains that /dev/sda1 does not exists > > > > That's because you don't have any partitions on that disk. Partition > > that's start with sector 0 is impossible. > > Interesting. I used parted to create one single partition as big as the > entire file. Here's what parted shows now: > > ========================================================= > $ /sbin/parted alan_restore.img > WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. > GNU Parted 3.2 > Using /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. > > (parted) p > Model: (file) > Disk /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img: 96.6GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: loop > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Flags > 1 0.00B 96.6GB 96.6GB ext4 > ========================================================= > > I assumed that that number 1 referred to partition n. 1, but I must be > mistaken.
I'm curious to know how you'd achieve this. Because best I could produce is this: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=restore.img bs=1M count=0 seek=96K 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 0.000490565 s, 0.0 kB/s $ /sbin/parted restore.img WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. GNU Parted 3.2 Using /tmp/restore.img Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel msdos (parted) mkpart primary 0 -1 Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Ignore/Cancel? I (parted) print Model: (file) Disk /tmp/restore.img: 103GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 512B 103GB 103GB primary lba Note the difference at 'Partition Table' and 'Start'. Reco
