On Sun, 04 May 2008 12:21:47 +0200, Jil Larner wrote:

> You also ought to backup the full MBR, which is a good practice, so you
> can bring back your boot sector and the partition table. Backing it up
> if very painless, just a dd command, cf. http://gentoo-wiki.com/MBR .

The MBR contains only the primary partitions. If you have an extended
partition, you will need to use sfdisk to make a separate backup of the
logical partition table.


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Neil Bothwick

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