On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:33:24PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > Hi, > > Looks like my Powerbook has some hardware problem so I have to ship it > to Apple for repair. Before that, I think it would be prudent to make > a backup --- could people please suggest some tools for that? > > I have a dual boot system, so I want to make a complete backup of the > whole hd. > > tpapp:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda > /dev/hda > # type name length base ( > size ) system > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( > 31.5k) Partition map > /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 3907 @ 64 ( > 1.9M) NewWorld bootblock > /dev/hda3 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 30457793 @ 262208 > ( 14.5G) HFS > /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1000001 @ 30720001 > (488.3M) Linux swap > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 85490238 @ 31720002 ( > 40.8G) Linux native > /dev/hda6 Apple_Free Extra 258237 @ 3971 > (126.1M) Free space > > Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240 > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 > > I can make the backup to an external hd, which has a bootable OS X > partition, so I can restore/backup from either linux or OS X. I would > also like to verify the backup.
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