On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Word Wizard <[email protected]> wrote: > > I used 'dd' to backup the MBR of my primary hard disk thus: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/disk/sda.boot.mbr bs=512 count=1 > > Upon restore I should have received: > > /dev/sda1 * 1 996 8000338+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda2 997 14593 109217902+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 997 1002 48163+ 83 Linux (/boot) > /dev/sda6 1003 3492 20000893+ 83 Linux (/) > /dev/sda7 3493 14593 89168751 83 Linux (/home) > > Instead the dd restore omitted the swap area. Is this normal? It seems > to me that one cannot replicate a hard disk Linux installation without > an exact replication of the original disk geography. Is this correct? The MBR is one piece but the disk partitions are the other part that is straight from /dev/sda. Since you are using standard partitioning (not LVM) you can use something like this to backup the partition table (extracted from the sfdisk man page): sfdisk /dev/sda -O sda-partition-sectors.save
> > I backed up and restored on an unmounted device from the Ubuntu Live > DVD. Could that have caused the problem? I now perform the same sequence > on a mounted device from single-user mode (init 1). Should that make a > difference? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
