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Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!



on Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:16:22PM -0600, Glenn English (ghe@slsware.com) wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 15:09 -0400, 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
> > be sure that file contained enough information to rebuild the
> > partition table if ever needed? Is there a tool/command to do this? 
> > fdisk has quite a few options so I was courious about some
> > preventative measures.
> 
> The tools I use are the p command in fdisk, and a pencil and paper. Then
> I stick it on the wall with a thumbtack.

I create a script to document system settings, then post that to my
Wiki:

    http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript

...and have even used same to reconstruct a partition table.  Once.


Bindered hardcopy is also tres helpful.


Peace.

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