Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2886 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 February 2002 16.10, zentara wrote:
> Hi,
> As you read on this list, someone lost their partition table
> due to the virus called Microsoft Windows.

I think it was more than the partition table that was lost. Windows has been 
known to ignore partition boundaries and just continue writing, destroying 
any non-windows data on later partitions

>
> Even if you don't have a dualboot, do yourself a favor
> and backup your partition table.
> Just do this:
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda  >>mytable.txt
> (or whatever disks you have)
> and write it to a floppy or handcopy it to a piece of paper.
>
> It just might save your A.

Good idea, though fdisk -lu is probably better. Some people, like me, manage 
to create partitions that don't end on cylinder boundaries :)

regards
Anders