Re: How to clone a HD in Linux?

From: P.T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:22:36 +0200

P.T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
> [pl on copying vfat to a disk with a hypothetically different sector size]>
> > -- all the directory information would
>
> Directory info? What's that? A DB term?
>
> > be useless. The drive would not be usable.

Oh - I see what you mean. You are maybe talking about the fat table
itself, which I seem to recall records where file fragments start in
sector count offsets (hard or "logical", logical does seem likely)? Yes
- I concur, it is likely that the fat table itself would need fixing
too.

I don't recall the format of directory entries in vfat file systems. If
they used hard sector entries instead of a reference to the fat, I would
be surprised but not appalled. You could be talking about that if that
is the case.

> I'd be perfectly happy to demonstrate me using it, once we get over the
> little problem of getting linux to use it AT ALL, whatever is on it.

Peter