Hi Stefan, On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 05:31:37AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 11:32:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > What happens if you use diskimages that contain directly a filesystem > > without going through the trouble of using a partition table? > > Does `ext4` also get tripped by the different underlying block size? > > I believe it will also fail but I haven't directly experimented.
I've now done a test and putting an ext4 filesystem directly on an LV and syncing that across results in something that works fine, so it is an issue with the MBR partition table. I wonder if there is a safe and reliable way to modify such partition tables on the destination so as to allow this to work… (As mentioned, "just don't put a partition table on it" isn't an ideal solution as these are disk images for virtual machines and people like to partition those even if it isn't necessary.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
