[plug] copy old hdd to new hdd

[Mike Holland]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Craig Ringer wrote:

> > or do I need to recreate the partition table on the new table and copy
> > each partition separately?

> The this approach much wiser unless the drives are totally identical.

Just checking -  I know the partition table is sensitive to
drive geometry, but the partitions dont care, right? ie FAT,ntfs,ext2,
etc all just see a partition as a sequence of blocks?
  Is it OK to copy the partition table if both disks look the same in LBA
mode?


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