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Re: dump fdisk data to TXT file



On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:23:51PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> Is there a program in Debian to dump the fdisk data to a file?
> 
> I would like to do `fdisk-dump /dev/hda > /etc/hda.fdisk` so that if the 
> partition table gets corrupted I can do
> `fdisk-restore /dev/hda < /etc/hda.fdisk` .  Is there any software in Debian 
> that allows such operations?

You can save the output of 'fdisk -l' but it can't be automatically
restored, AFAIK.  For full automation, try sfdisk.  I haven't used it, but
the manpage looks promising.


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Tommi Komulainen                                 Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi
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