mondorestore says a partition is occupied

[bruno]

When restoring, mondorestore can say that a partition is occupied and stop preparing the disk.

This can happen when the restore is done on an MBR disk whereas the original was GPT.

[bruno]

mondoarchive should keep track of disk partitions format and mondorestore should use that info to force the restoration of disks, where it makes sense.

[bruno]

This is a tough topic in fact.

The only clear case is when on the master the disk was GPT and had more than 5 primary partitions; It can only be restored on a GPT disk.

For the rest, the user may want to change to disk type from MBR to GPT or vice-versa.

So in addition to keeping all info, we should keep track of the one which can't be changed (such as the previous example) and permit change for the others.

It's as a consequence a big change :-(

I'll see to try to implement just the use case mentioned above for the next version.

[bruno]

A workaround is to force the format of the target disk to be GPT with parted to avoid restoration issue if original was GPT as well:

parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt