On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:31:55 Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:09:38 Rodney Baker wrote:
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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.
Further to this, the above restore command restores the partition table but not the boot sector (the first 446 bytes). In my case I will probably want to restore the boot sector as well, in which case it will mean leaving of the skip and seek params (if I'm understanding this correctly). -- =================================================== 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