From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262415AbVGLUvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261945AbVGLUtT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:49:19 -0400 Received: from web52001.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.84]:3242 "HELO web52001.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262409AbVGLUs0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:48:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Z14SzRckjbD1loh/ELHkiwzMkOPOrvmFnCZAY/LhiYCIwhNhDQARl4qCj9dhhxdvmIvpUkDYoPEdwfPA5zxd+eNAlBGO1OS3RRZeCOyVc4/DOmt/c8PO1ryPT9EP87OLwOZv3mKP3av7sOUOaKs+TRKsVPXOfZZQgqm7NhM7VBI= ; Message-ID: <20050712204822.84567.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:48:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Konstantin Kudin Subject: Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean? To: Horst von Brand , lkml@dervishd.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200507122019.j6CKJwxe021850@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Horst von Brand 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 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. > -- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com