On 8 January 2015 at 11:05, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
(there was more struggle trying to find a solution than actually doing the conversion),
Can you describe the solution (or link to it) for the benefit of anyone else with the same problem who stumbles upon this thread via Google etc?
If I copy the partition table, do I end up with two sticks with the same volume name? I realise I could easily edit that post-copy, but just wondering.
As far as I know the volume name is separate. If you run sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sdX .. and look at the output you can see what information the dump contains; piping it back into sfdisk for the second disk just passes those details over to the new disk.
That said, sfdisk doesn't work with GPT configurations which it sounds like you have. [s]gdisk does but I haven't found the equivalent way to dump partition information (indeed gfdisk -d deletes partitions, a completely different thing!)