PaulNM on 9 Mar 2017 20:12:09 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Best tool to image a dynamic disk? 

On 03/09/2017 11:07 PM, PaulNM wrote:


The main reason installers create a partition table is it makes it
unlikely some other software will mess around with the data. Anything
that doesn't recognize the LVM metadata will think the disk is
uninitialized/unused.
Aaahh! To clarify: Disks without a partition table will look uninitialized/unused. Whereas most software will leave an unrecognized partition alone. 

-- PaulNM

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