Can GParted, partimage, partclone or clonezilla be used on partitions with GUID Partition Table?
The main tool is gdisk as shown here
# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 3BDFAD85-6BB1-450F-9A5D-5BB1B10363A7
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 104416941 sectors (49.8 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 534527 260.0 MiB ED00 EFI system partition
2 534528 3553279 1.4 GiB 2700 Basic data partition
3 3553280 4085759 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
4 4085760 4347903 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ...
5 4347904 704706559 334.0 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
6 1395027968 1465147391 33.4 GiB 2700 Basic data partition
7 1081552896 1186410495 50.0 GiB 8E00
8 704706560 754845695 23.9 GiB 8300
9 976695296 1081552895 50.0 GiB 8E00
10 1186410496 1395027967 99.5 GiB 8E00
11 754845696 859703295 50.0 GiB 8E00 primary
15 964116480 976695295 6.0 GiB 0700 primary
Command (? for help): q
GParted supports GPT. So does KVPM, and of course the YaST partitioner.
Best regards,
Bequimão
Thank you! What I am looking for is a tool to create an image of an entire partitions as backup, and being able to restore it to the same or to a different partition. Up to now I have been using partimage, but believe that will not work with GPT disks. Can gdisk or KVPM do that?
Partitioning tools (like gdisk) work on the partitioning administration on the disk, not on the partitions themselves… Thus those tools will not be able to copy/make clones of partitions.
Those tools you can use to copy/make clones of partitions are fully independent of the partitioning type (MBR or GPT). To address partitions you use the device files like /dev/sdXN regardless of MBR or GPT. Thus for these tasks you can use whatever you used already on MBR partitions, like dd from the CLI or Clonezilla from the GUI.
Great, I can continue to use partimage then, thanks!