I broke it! How can I fix it?

[Tony Alfrey]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

I did briefly but I will go back and study it more thoroughly.  Thanks!



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