Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre1

[Andrew Clausen]

Dan Knapp wrote:
> 
> > Is there much desire (other than mine :) for a mechanism to save the
> > partition table to disk (in some simple plain text format)? Seems it
> > would be nice to recreate a corrupt partition table using a backup
> > (other than dd'ing the first few sectors).
> 
>   It's interesting, but I don't see why you consider this superior to
> dd-ing?

There's lots to dd.  MSDOS partitions, for example, have a linked
list of logical partitions.  So, if you have, say, 3 logical
partitions, you must save:

(1) the main partition table
(2) the extended partitoin table
(3) the logical partition tables for partitions 6 and 7 (the
second 2 logical partitions)

Also, you might not want to interfere with boot loaders, which generally
share the same sectors (just, different parts of the sector ;-)
Of course, dd can handle that, but it's a little more tricky.

Andrew Clausen