On Wed 17 Feb 2016 21:44:03 NZDT +1300, Peter Simmonds wrote:

> drive and kept going as it was! Booting is not an exception really,
> it has far better programming to enable it to recover from what may
> be slightly mashed up partitioning.

Keep in mind that BillyFS(TM) was designed with the braindead idea of
storing the start position of the filesystem relative to the start of
the disk(!!!) in the filesystem header. If you dd the partition to a new
disk with a partition later on, because you enlarged the previous
partition, Billy no longer knows about it...

I have once successfuly injected new doctored bytes with dd, but it's
not worth the trouble. Just tell the boss you need to buy a new doze
box, preinstalled...

In answer to $SUBJECT, yes, in numerous ways, but I'm not sure they
apply in the case here.

Volker

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