Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 10:09:50 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk Message-ID: <20010407100950.A39907@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <15054.59231.512246.41836@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:09:35AM -0500 References: <28251368@toto.iv> <15054.59231.512246.41836@guru.mired.org>
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:09:35AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > It won't trash the slice tables - I'm assuming that's what you mean, > as those are in the boot block - or the partition tables, as those are > in the slices. > Yeah, slice tables... > You can always print out a copy of the slice and partition tables > before you do this. If you trash them, you can recover them by hand > from a fixit cdrom or floppy. Having that printout is a good idea in > any case. I keep a copy of that with my offsite backups. I got impatient, so the other day I printed the slice table and decided to try to reinitialize the boot code. After two test runs and the real thing, my boot sector is still intact. Offsite backups? I don't even keep onsite backups! Nothing I keep on my machine is that important anyway, I just can't afford the time of reconstructing a wasted system right now. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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