Re: Re: Re: [ILUG] Agh! Help!

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Thu 13 Jun 2002 - 16:02:52 IST


Quoting phil at domain techworks.ie (phil at domain 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 domain linuxmafia.com             -- Adam Barr, former Microsoft Corp. programmer


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