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SubjectRe: Getting table of partition from one disk?y
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> Just some words of wisdom for EVERYONE out there. Immediately
> after setting up any hard disk, and every time you modify a
> partition table _ever_, you should IMMEDIATELY do:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/hostname-hda-todaysdate.ptbl bs=512 count=1

Doesn't help if /root is on hda. You should really back up
to (at least one) floppy as well.

Orin.

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