From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 8:10:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCF837B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5BDA5A91E; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 10:09:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 10:09:50 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Mike Meyer Cc: Andrew Hesford , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk Message-ID: <20010407100950.A39907@cec.wustl.edu> References: <28251368@toto.iv> <15054.59231.512246.41836@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15054.59231.512246.41836@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:09:35AM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:09:35AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. > Yeah, slice tables... > 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. I got impatient, so the other day I printed the slice table and decided to try to reinitialize the boot code. After two test runs and the real thing, my boot sector is still intact. Offsite backups? I don't even keep onsite backups! Nothing I keep on my machine is that important anyway, I just can't afford the time of reconstructing a wasted system right now. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message