Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 05:09:35 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk Message-ID: <15054.59231.512246.41836@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <28251368@toto.iv>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > The man page for fdisk isn't really clear about this, and I've never > tried it: > > What happens if I run fdik -B on my main disk? The manual says this > reinitializes my boot code, but does it also trash my partition table? It won't trash the slice tables - I'm assuming that's what you mean, as those are in the boot block - or the partition tables, as those are in the slices. > I'd like to keep boot code relatively current, for bug fixes and others. > But I don't want to trash 5G of and operating system by trying this > without knowing what it does. You can always print out a copy of the slice and partition tables before you do this. If you trash them, you can recover them by hand from a fixit cdrom or floppy. Having that printout is a good idea in any case. I keep a copy of that with my offsite backups. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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