On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:00 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: > For me, it would be because dealing with an individual 512-byte > partition table file is easier than decompressing a multi-gigabyte image > file to get at the first 512 bytes.
There is a point where a dd copy of the MBR is quite useful, this is when some MICROS~1 system messed up the MBR and you just want to restore it as it was - when it was completely fine. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
