On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 03:44, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:17:21 +1200 > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Conclusions: > > > > 1. Back up the MBR and everything else, first! > > 2. Be very, very careful when using 'map' to swap drives around > > 3. It's probably safest to let DOS/Windows occupy Drive 1, where in its > > blinkered arrogance it thinks it belongs. Linux can sit somewhere else. > > I'm glad you were able to unscrew your system, but methinks you got lucky. > > Having a backup of the MBR is nice but not necessary, and it probably isn't > sufficient most of the time. What you really need is to be able to > re-create all the partition tables, and if you use an extended partition > not all that information will be in the MBR. > > To get a complete listing of partitions on all drives on your system do: > > fdisk -ul > partitions.030926 > > which saves the output in a text file. Save that text file somewhere other > than on the system you may need to restore (such as a floppy or USB memory > device). > > Should you need to recreate your partition table you can do so using fdisk > (not cfdisk and certainly not parted). > > Kevin
Thanks for the advice, I've saved it in my 'Linux' mail directory just for reference. And yes, I think I did get lucky. (As it happens, I've just done a complete reinstall - not because of that, but because some hideous bug - don't know if it was a software thing, or a virus in my Windows partition (haven't had time to check yet), or a hardware fault - caused my system to switch off without warning, several times. After which my X configuration was quite severely munged for no reason I could figure out - it wasn't XF86config, which was unchanged. But at least I was able to save all my mail etc to a backup before I reinstalled.) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
