[parted-devel] [PATCH 0/2] gpt: Preserve relocated primary partition table

[Brian C. Lane]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 09:44:39PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 11/12/2025 at 20:51, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not really comfortable with guessing at the
> > location of the primary partition array when using the backup header. It
> > would be better to use the backup table to try and search for the
> > primary, maybe?
> 
> Do you mean to search a correlation between the contents of the backup
> partition entry array and of possible locations between the primary header
> and the first usable LBA ?
> 

Yes. We'd have to assume that both tables aren't corrupt, which may not
be a great assumption considering this is triggered by the primary
header being invalid.

Other ideas welcome :)

Brian

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