[Gllug] Extremely strange disk imaging problem.

Chris Bell chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk
Fri Jan 21 09:13:55 UTC 2011


On Fri 21 Jan, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
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> Indeed have just zeroed the first sector of one of these disks and tried
> it in another machine, still 78GB, gah what's eating all my gigabytes!?
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> Roger.
> 
   I think there is more than one sector involved, both M$ and Linux use
other unallocated sectors, and Linux has to avoid the sectors used by M$. 


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