[ILUG] How much of MBR is partition table?

[Paul Kelly]

Conor Daly wrote:

> 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?

That will catch your primary partitions ONLY (hda1-hda4). The information
on your logical partitions is stored in the first sector of each of those
logical partitions.

Paul.