i'd like to know how to backup the master boot record, but the trouble is
that i don't know how "big" the mbr is.
according to the lilo mini-howto:
dd if=/dev/hda of=blah bs=446 count=1
according to some documents i've found on google:
dd if=/dev/hda of=blah bs=512 count=1
so is it 446 bytes or 512 bytes?
also, a question about dd. according to the man page, bs=BYTE tells dd to
read and write BYTE bytes. count=BLOCK tells dd to copy only BLOCK input
blocks.
what is a block?
pete
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