On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device.
Why?
Because it contains the partition table.
Right, but why separately, rather than with the rest of the disk?
For me, it would be because dealing with an individual 512-byte
partition table file is easier than decompressing a multi-gigabyte image
file to get at the first 512 bytes.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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