Re: cloning a disk

On 2026-08-08 17:42, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mick.crane wrote:
>> I'm not understanding if the backup GPT Header is on the primary 
>> partition
>> or not.
> 
> See
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
> 
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> Sorry i cannot tell why your fdisk runs sometimes report bad backup
> tables and sometimes don't.
> Especially riddling is this from an earlier post of you:
> 
>   Disk /dev/sda: 2.73 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
>   ...
>   Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
>   /dev/sda1   2048 5860532223 5860530176  2.7T Linux filesystem
>   GPT PMBR size mismatch (234441647 != 468862127) will be corrected by 
> write.
>   The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that 
> will be
> used.
>   The backup GPT table is not on the end of the device.
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> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas

As last posting I think these GPT error messages are about the disk 
listed below the error messages.

mick