Re: Re: A question about restore after a disk disaster

[email protected] wrote:

> Now the last gap is the disk partition layout.
> In the texts of  usr/doc/RIP  in the  rootfs.cgz  archive
> i found sfdisk :
>   sfdisk -d /dev/hda > textfile
>   sfdisk /dev/hda < textfile
> I will try to make use of this by a script which gets 
> generated at backup time. At restore time it shall tell
> some info about partitions, filesystems, mount points and
> offer to restore the partition table. (After three
> confirmation prompts and disclaimers, of course.)
>
> Joerg, is there a way to have the script with the partition
> table description located early in the star level=0 archive ? 
> Some trick about the name or so ?
> Since that script would have to be extracted to the RIP
> RAM disk prior to the big restore, it would be very helpful
> if it could be found quickly. A separate media would be
> unelegant.

I would recommend to use a separate file on the media.

Jörg

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