Re: [Gptfdisk-general] verify disk should warn if gpt table ends before end of disk

[Christoph B. <sou...@ma...>]

Martin Castillo wrote...

> I transitioned to a new, bigger storage medium by simply dd(1)ing it.

To avoid your situation, I'd rather gdisk's partition replication
feature and then either dd the data by partition, or use the applicable
tooling. The latter may be done online and can be a lot faster (almost
empty LVM physical volume), no difference but more robust (mdadm), or a
lot slower (ZFS). This also avoids a lot of trouble if UUIDs exist twice.

Still, I consider your report legitimate as this situation may be caused
be other means.

> When I tried to increase the last partition, it was not possible. No free
> space at the end was shown.
>
> "verify disk" did not mention any problems around that.
> I write this mail because I think it would be useful, if this condition
> would be mentioned.

Indeed.

Today, I came across the same situation, using the sfdisk from the
coreutils, though. The report is in the Debian bug tracker at
https://bugs.debian.org/1096072

> Using the expert command e fixes this. 'v' could recommend that.

Thanks for that one, I feared I had to poke the partition table using
sfdisk scripts.

    Christoph