Quoting phil at techworks.ie (phil at techworks.ie):
> You know, it is one of those things where you think 'I need to make a
> copy of my partition table' but you never do it, or if you do, you
> lose the bit of paper!
You know, you can alternatively use dd to copy sector zero to a file,
then mcopy to store it for safekeeping on a date-marked floppy (or on
a neighbour system). Which of course might then be misplaced, too, but
maybe not.
--
Cheers, "On the face of it, Microsoft complaining about the source license
Rick Moen used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black."
rick at linuxmafia.com -- Adam Barr, former Microsoft Corp. programmer
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