Matt Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> -Idea 0x00- Save/Load an MBR to file
>
> This would allow users, who toast their MBR to safely restore it.  Its nothing
> more than ` dd bs=512 count=1 if=dev of=user-file-name` merely implemented as 
> a
> read 512B and write to a user specified file.  Likewise, ability to 
> load/restore a previously saved MBR from this file would be convenient too.

I'd need to check but I think it's not 512B for all labels or arches.

> -Idea 0x01- Convert from one label to another label
> This could be useful, I've never had to do such, and I actually wonder if it
> would be useful to anyone else?

MBR to GPT would be nice :-)

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