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On 2013-06-23 08:48, Ralf Mardorf
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On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 23:36 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:If you have important data on the laptop, you should plug in an external drive and dd the entire laptop drive to an image file on the external drive (which must have at least as much free space as the laptop drive's size).A very good advice, so the OP can try to recover it as often as needed, by dd'ing it back. dd'ing an alive system would drive to filesystem inconsistencies. A running system, with running applications, I mean. I wouldnt trust that. -- RMA. |