Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:32:56 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG, bu7cher@yandex.ru, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup a partition table with gpart(8) Message-ID: <201011181132.oAIBWucC051624@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <4CE505B2.6010601@yandex.ru>
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Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote: > I'm thinking about such feature like ability to dump partition > table into file from which it can be recovered in the future. > Also it can be used to copy partition table to another device. > > At the moment i think that just print out a list of commands that > should be done to create the same table it is the easiest way. > [...] > Any comments and ideas are welcome. How about an option to dump the table in XML format, and another option that creates a table from an XML structure? (I'm not a huge fan of XML, but in this particular case it might be useful.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "People still program in C. People keep writing shell scripts. *Most* people don't realize the shortcomings of the tools they are using because they a) don't reflect on their workflows and they are b) too lazy to check out alternatives to realize there is help." -- Simon 'corecode' Schubert
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