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[ILUG] How much of MBR is partition table?

[ILUG] How much of MBR is partition table?

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Fri Feb 9 22:26:35 GMT 2001


Just about to embark on some repartitioning and I'm wondering, Where
exactly is the partition table on an IDE disk anyhow.  Is

dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR.img bs=512 count=1 enough?

TIA
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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