copying the partition

[Net Llama!]

On 09/10/2005 10:14 AM, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> On Saturday 10 September 2005 09:07 am, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> Is it possible to copy the partition table using dd? Does the table have
>> a fixed location in the harddisk?
> 
> Yes. The partition table is contained in the first block (block 0) of your 
> hard drive, i.e., dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 of=~/block0
> 
> For some background you can read the man page for sfdisk.

actually sfdisk is no longer included with RH/FC due to some petty
bug/squabble.


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