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On 3/31/2013 8:28 PM, Grant Peel wrote:
> I was wondering in anyone sees any issues creating the drive geometry using
> this method, with the intent of restoring dumped filesystems to to,
> including the root filesystem.

Geometry or partition size?  If it's geometry, and you need to worry 
about it, buy a new system.  Nowadays it's making sure your 4k block 
hard drive has everything aligned to 4k blocks when the drive reports 
512b blocks.  If it's partition size, no.