Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:48:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Konstantin Kudin <> | Subject | Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean? |
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--- Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
Guys, thanks a lot for the explanations!
Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions by using the command "sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX". Supposedly, it reads not only primary but also extended partitions. "sfdisk -x /dev/hdX" should be then able to write whatever is known back to the disk.
Konstantin
> DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net> wrote: > > [...] > > > It's a good idea to have a copy of the partition table around, > if > > it is not simple (the one you had is NOT simple). > > Be careful. What you'll get out of backing up the partition table is > /only/ > the primary partitions, the others are handled by a weird russian > doll of > partitions-inside-partitions. AFAIR, the details were in the LILO > docu. > --
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