On 9/24/19 7:00 AM, David wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 07:50, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -0000, Debian Buster wrote:
2. create the parttion exactly as it was.
system. I recognise that was only that easy to do because I knew that
the original partition arrangement was so simple. If it had been more
complex I would likely have been hosed.
A method that I find simple and useful is to run
# fdisk -l
and archive its output somewhere.
+1
I also check in the output to a version control system.
My experience is limited to msdos-compatible partition tables.
I also run parted(8) and smartctl(8), save, and check-in the output:
# parted -s /dev/sda u s p free
# smartctl -x /dev/sda
David
