On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote: > We do need more info other than "the clone operation failed". I have > cloned a large number of machines using Clonezilla using virgin drives > (CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Winblows). Many had the target drives larger > than the original. I will say that they all used fdisk-style partition > tables, though (no GPT tables).
Yeah and it's a minor problem for the backup GPT to be in the wrong location, that alone wouldn't cause boot to fail unless the primary GPT were hosed somehow. The primary header points to the LBA of the backup header, which would still be valid if you had used something like dd or ddrescue. The problem is that if the primary header is hosed (missing, totally corrupt or checksum fails), a tool will assume the backup is at the end of the drive but won't find it there. Unless that tool is the kernel. Funny enough, the kernel itself right now doesn't fallback to the backup GPT if the primary one is corrupt. Instead boot fails. Not cool! [1] [1] mishandled corruption of primary GPT table, failure to boot https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63591 -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
