On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Avinash Sonawane > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am running Ubuntu 11.04. But now due to some or other reasons I have >> to format my entire disk and reinstall the Ubuntu, >> But I have Installed many softwares on Natty. And when I'll reinstall > > WARNING: you may lose all your data. understand all the steps first > and try it somewhere else if you want. > > It'll take a lot of time but you can create an image of your entire > linux partition (see dd for it). You'll have to be very careful with > the fdisk. Recreate exactly the same partition table after formatting > (whatever that means because by this method, you'll end up with > exactly the same old system) and move back the image. Something on the > lines of > > 1. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=??
Here by 'sda1' you mean the partition on which ubuntu is installed right..? But I blindly copied this command and copied the whole first partition in Ubuntu. :( I should have read the man pages before executing this command. But now will you please let me know how to undo this operation since now I am out of space on Ubuntu. and what is this '??' in output file ? > 2. fdisk -l > ?? > 3. format drive (again, whatever that means) > 4. recreate partition table (refer to data from step 2) > 5. dd if=?? of=/dev/sda1 > > > SB > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Avinash Sonawane PICT Pune -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
