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twantrd

08-20-2005 01:49 PM

backup partition table

Can anyone show me how to backup the partition table in FreeBSD 5.x? I'm googling around like nuts and I see references to 'disklabel' but they're all talking about making a partition table. I pretty much want to dump the partition table to a file (like sfdisk -d /dev/hda > /tmp/partition.save in linux)
Thanks guys..

-twantrd

teckk

08-20-2005 07:01 PM

http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints...s_cloning.html

Read through that. dd will allow you to back up the partitions to another drive.

If you want a single file out of it I guess that you could make an .iso out of it.

Code:

man mkisofs

You could also make a tarball out of it.

Code:

man tar

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