On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
>
> I usually just keep a hard copy, and restore the table by hand if
> there is a problem. But then, I've never had much luck with automated
> recovery tools--there's usually something on my system that they don't
> know about and can't deal with.
>
> For each drive, I run '/sbin/fdisk -l $drive >> /tmp/ptable' and
> '/sbin/fdisk -l -u $drive >> /tmp/ptable'. When I'm done, I just make
> a hard copy printout of /tmp/ptable, which contains all of the
> information I've ever needed to restore a partition table by hand.
If you want the actual partition table do something like this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/mbr.hda bs=512 count=1
I believe 512 (1 sector) is the correct size. Restore with a similar
command.
I don't normally do this unless I am screwing around with the MBR in
a weird way and think I might really hose things. Perhaps it is
a good practice in general... I have never used partition magic or
similar utilities so I don't know how they mess up the above strategy.
Karl Runge
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