Cloning a disk pt2

[Luis Paulo]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:40, ashw <ashw at lr.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:14 -0500, Ash Wyllie wrote:
>> Luis Paulo opined
>>
>> >btw, what is "pt2"?
>>
>> I started another "clone a disk" thread last week. this is the follow up.
>>
> Here is the results of the suggested test
>
>
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda1
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
> disklabel
> Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x79fa7ec8.
> Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
> After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
>
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14222.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
>
> Command (m for help): q
>
> The disk in question is the internal boot disk, running the current
> version of Ubuntu 9.
>
>                                                       -ash
>

I'm very sorry. Should be
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Then use p option to list the parttition table and q to exit.

Or just do
$ sudo fdisk -l
to list all disks

My hope was/is that fdisk could show some additional info on what may
be your problem.
NoOp thinks its the swap partition. I would try it, even if I don't
see why. Probably because I don't use gparted very often.

Best Regards
Luis