On 9/24/19 7:00 AM, David wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 07:50, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -0000, Debian Buster wrote:2. create the parttion exactly as it was.system. I recognise that was only that easy to do because I knew that the original partition arrangement was so simple. If it had been more complex I would likely have been hosed.A method that I find simple and useful is to run # fdisk -l and archive its output somewhere.
+1 I also check in the output to a version control system.
My experience is limited to msdos-compatible partition tables.
I also run parted(8) and smartctl(8), save, and check-in the output: # parted -s /dev/sda u s p free # smartctl -x /dev/sda David