Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery

From: Al Boldi
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 08:22:33 EST


Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 14:29:34 +0300, Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > But, I want something much more automated. And the partition table
> > backup per partition entry isn't really a bad idea.
>
> That's called `gpart'.

Oh, gpart is great, but if we had a backup copy of the partition table on
every partition location on disk, then this backup copy could easily be
reused to reconstruct the original partition table without further
searching. Just like the NetWare approach, and in some respect like the
ext2/3 superblock backups.


Thanks!

--
Al

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