backing up your partition table--reminder
Hi, As you read on this list, someone lost their partition table due to the virus called Microsoft Windows. 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. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
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
/snip/ /good idea, though fdisk -lu is probably better. Some people, like me, manage
to create partitions that don't end on cylinder boundaries :)
what does fdisk -lu do? (I'm not in Linus at the moment, so I can't look.) --doug
Il 01:39, lunedì 4 febbraio 2002, Doug McGarrett ha scritto:
/snip/
/good idea, though fdisk -lu is probably better. Some people, like me, manage
to create partitions that don't end on cylinder boundaries :)
what does fdisk -lu do? (I'm not in Linus at the moment, so I can't look.) --doug
I got the extended partition which does not end on cylinder boundary, but the output of fdisk -l e fdisk -lu is just the same. Praise
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