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Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1
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Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1 |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:31:03 -0200 |
Dan Knapp wrote:
>
> > Is there much desire (other than mine :) for a mechanism to save the
> > partition table to disk (in some simple plain text format)? Seems it
> > would be nice to recreate a corrupt partition table using a backup
> > (other than dd'ing the first few sectors).
>
> It's interesting, but I don't see why you consider this superior to
> dd-ing?
There's lots to dd. MSDOS partitions, for example, have a linked
list of logical partitions. So, if you have, say, 3 logical
partitions, you must save:
(1) the main partition table
(2) the extended partitoin table
(3) the logical partition tables for partitions 6 and 7 (the
second 2 logical partitions)
Also, you might not want to interfere with boot loaders, which generally
share the same sectors (just, different parts of the sector ;-)
Of course, dd can handle that, but it's a little more tricky.
Andrew Clausen
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1, Andrew Clausen, 2001/02/01
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1, Dan Knapp, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1,
Andrew Clausen <=
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1, Dan Knapp, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1, Ben Collins, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1, Andrew Clausen, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre, Dan Knapp, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre, Andrew Clausen, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre, Dan Knapp, 2001/02/02
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre, Andrew Clausen, 2001/02/03
- Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1, Dan Knapp, 2001/02/02