Comment 3 for bug 200680

Hi!

> first I want to thank you for your great job. go on in this way, your work is precious

Thanks!

> if I backup and restore the full disk I obtain this partition table
> x3400:/mnt/dev/sdd2/PRELOAD# sfdisk -l /dev/sdd
> Disk /dev/sdd: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/sdd1 * 0+ 6528 6529- 52444161 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdd2 59515 60800 1286 10329795 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdd3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> /dev/sdd4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

Actually, partimage-ng didn't do anything harmful. And I see no point
in having a hole in the partition table.

partimage-ng does *not* create a snapshot of the partition table. Instead
it saves info about the location of partitions and their geometry and
recreates them when restoring the whole disk. That's why it hasn't
created an empty partition table entry.

What software have you used to create such a partition layout?
Or did the system come preloaded by manufacturer?

The question is, does this issue cause problems for you?
I suppose everything works fine except you don't have this hole
any longer, right?