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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:14:43 +0200
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To: Konstantin Kudin <konstantin_kudin@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?
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    Hi Konstantin :)

 * Konstantin Kudin <konstantin_kudin@yahoo.com> dixit:
>  Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions
> by using the command "sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX". Supposedly, it reads not
> only primary but also extended partitions. "sfdisk -x /dev/hdX" should
> be then able to write whatever is known back to the disk.

    Cool! A long time has passed since I used sfdisk, but I used it
for manually re-reading partition tables and the like :)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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