From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762737AbXGTMWb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:22:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755605AbXGTMWV (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:22:21 -0400 Received: from [212.12.190.219] ([212.12.190.219]:33120 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755534AbXGTMWU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:22:20 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:22:17 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> <200707201429.34419.a1426z@gawab.com> <20070720113914.GJ22998@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20070720113914.GJ22998@lug-owl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707201522.17270.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-20 14:29:34 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > But, I want something much more automated. And the partition table > > backup per partition entry isn't really a bad idea. > > That's called `gpart'. Oh, gpart is great, but if we had a backup copy of the partition table on every partition location on disk, then this backup copy could easily be reused to reconstruct the original partition table without further searching. Just like the NetWare approach, and in some respect like the ext2/3 superblock backups. Thanks! -- Al