Path: csiph.com!news.samoylyk.net!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Taming The Data Destroyer Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:53:19 +0100 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <10fe1ec$ipc8$1@dont-email.me> <87a50k5yt3.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <691b8e3b@news.ausics.net> <691c12b7@news.ausics.net> <10fh6jl$1cvaf$1@dont-email.me> <10fhnqm$1gvnc$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BQ6W/CpN/kH5zbTzfPJQJgK/nOQnY5AjKITjUR6E4d1X7HgBv2 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:mGkY40EAM0d+rMwWw6yY29UZSyI= sha256:lq3/tAHhvz5acXZCoE5g9NXieBxHpN8PgjItvaFHeGI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10fhnqm$1gvnc$7@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77726 On 2025-11-18 13:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 18/11/2025 08:17, c186282 wrote: >> On 11/18/25 02:46, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> On 2025-11-18 08:34, c186282 wrote: >>>> On 11/18/25 02:18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>>>> On 18 Nov 2025 16:31:19 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> No fdisk won't do damage instantly when you just run one command from >>>>>> the command line, modifying partitions is done in its interactive >>>>>> mode. >>>>>> You can't stuff things up just by attempting an "fdisk -l". >>>>> >>>>> I think it was parted I found that made its changes to the disk >>>>> instantly, >>>>> without requiring an explicit save. >>>>> >>>>> I discovered that the hard way. Avoided it after that. >>>>> >>>>> sfdisk was a handy one for saving/restoring the entire partition >>>>> table in >>>>> a single command -- particularly in the days before fdisk acquired GPT >>>>> support. >>>> >>>>    Umm ... rec ... if possible use 'gparted' instead. >>>>    Takes care of the little stuff. >>> >>> That's the tool I use. >>> >>> But we also need, for backups, something that can save and >>> reconstruct the partition table, even GPT. >> >>    Not 101% sure gparted can do that perfectly. It CAN >>    copy an entire partition somewhere, but never tried >>    to have it re-create an entire (gpt or not) partition >>    from scratch, there may be 'issues' there. Normally >>    had to make a big enough unformatted space and then >>    copy the data into it. Then run the needed grub stuff >>    to find and index it all so it can boot. >> > > dd will dump the entire raw disk structure including partitions and all > data. Certainly. But I image each partition separately, and not all, some I do rsync the files. > > Just feed it to a .iso file to remind you it's an image But it is not an iso image. I name them .image or .img -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;