fdisk Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Angelina Carlton wrote:
> Just for those of us just following along, can I use fdisk to record
> the EXACT information on my currently working systems to a file, and
fdisk -l /dev/hda > /tmp/hda.fdisk.lst
> be sure that file contained enough information to rebuild the
> partition table if ever needed?
yup
> Is there a tool/command to do this?
yup
> fdisk has quite a few options so I was courious about some
> preventative measures.
save that info to a piece of paper, since your disk may not be
accessible at the time
- and tape the paper to the disk or the PC
- your your palm top or your floppy or anyplace else
other than files on the disk itself
c ya
alvin
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