copying the partition

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:49 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

	Oops! Sounds like Debian.

	Here's a link to "Partition Types", 

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html

which probably is better, anyway.

cmr

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