It also helps to keep a copy of your Master Boot record (which includes
data for the 4 primary partitions) - You can restore this in case
you find that your MBR got corrupted due to some reason.
Use the following command (as root) to do it.
dd if=/dev/hda of=filename_to_save_to bs=512 count=1
Kala
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:30:49AM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar typed:
> Do:
> man fdisk
> If you're lazy do:
> fdisk -l /dev/hdx > here_is_my_partition_table
> or:
> fdisk -lu /dev/hdx > here_is_my_partition_table
>
> \Indraneel
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Gaurav Priyolkar wrote:
>
> > I am no sysadmin, but I would like to know how to copy the partition tables.
> >
>
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