Re: Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance

[Dick Streefland]

Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| The entire concept of geometry is a a carryover from days gone by. 
| These days it is just a farse maintained for backwards compatibility. 
| You can put fdisk into sector mode with the 'u' command and create 
| partitions of any number of sectors you desire, regardless of the 
| perceived geometry.

An easy way to clone a partition table is:

  sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY

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