I broke it! How can I fix it?

[C M Reinehr]

On Monday 01 October 2007 16:18, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> sfdisk looks very much the same as fdisk or other partitioning tool; ?am
> I missing some additional functionality that helps to copy the boot sector?

sfdisk is lower level than either fdisk or cfdisk. In a sense, you can 
manipulate the partition table manually, i.e., sfdisk -d /dev/sda > 
part_table.sda. part_table.sda will be a text file that you can open with an 
editor. You reverse the process with sfdisk -d /dev/sda < part_table.sda. 
(Very dangerous stuff!)

Have a look at man:sfdisk and compare it to either cfdisk or fdisk.

Cheers!

cmr
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