Re: [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I really see very limited usefulness in this.  It's only
> potentially useful to expert users, but those should know how to backup
> sectors in their disk already.

Of course, like many restore facilities, it's only useful if you
remembered or realised that you needed to do the backup before the data
was overwritten ...

It would be nice to have a straightforward answer to the sort of bug
report that goes "argh, I installed Debian/Ubuntu and it ate the special
magic boot loader I carefully installed there five years ago", I must
admin.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden