Re: dump fdisk data to TXT file
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:29:26AM +1000, Kevin Easton wrote:
> If you want to dump the "fdisk data" (by which I guess you mean the hard
> disk partition table) to a file, you can either:
>
> * Do what others have suggested (fdisk -l /dev/hda > hda.fdisk) - this
> will give you a readable text version of your partition table, but you can't
> use this to directly reconstruct the partition table with fdisk.
See sfdisk. It can dump a partition table that it can read back.
/sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.sfdisk
Read the man page carefully! You may want to use the -O option as well.
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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