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SubjectRe: Protecting the partition table.
> 	Most of the time just a reboot let's me continue with my work but sometimes the partition table gets trashed. When this happens, it's a 3 hour recovery time for me.  
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> Is there a way to protect the partition table so that it does not get trashed when the kernel crashes???

Not that I know of. I keep a floppy with more-or-less recent copies
of the boot sector around, so I can recover in less then three hours :-)
Make sure you get the boot sectors of all partitions and all hard disks
on that floppy, and make sure you can boot it.

Regards,
Martin

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