On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:09:38 Rodney Baker wrote:
[...] terabyte USB drive, but my question is this. Should I backup the partition table from the original drive as well, to ease the process of restoring it back to its current state before I completely blow away these 2 partitions of the HDD in the laptop? What is the correct way to do this, apart from pen and paper?
Assuming I do back it up to the USB drive, what would the process be to restore it?
Never mind, I found the answer here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-backup-hard-disk-partition-table- mbr.html Backup: # dd if=/dev/sxX of=/<path>/sdX-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 Restore: # dd if=sdX-mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446 Hope this helps someone else. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org