From: Konstantin Kudin <konstantin_kudin@yahoo.com>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
lkml@dervishd.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:48:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050712204822.84567.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507122019.j6CKJwxe021850@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
--- 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-12 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-12 16:35 Konstantin Kudin
2005-07-12 17:37 ` DervishD
2005-07-12 20:19 ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-12 20:48 ` Konstantin Kudin [this message]
2005-07-13 10:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-14 13:50 ` kernel
2005-07-14 16:23 ` DervishD
2005-07-14 18:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-13 12:14 ` DervishD
2005-07-13 12:13 ` DervishD
[not found] <mailman.1123702259.29404.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2005-08-10 23:00 ` Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd? Pete Zaitcev
2005-08-11 7:29 ` DervishD
2005-08-11 22:53 ` Horst von Brand
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