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Originally Posted by syg00
I always worry when this question arises. WHY are you asking ?.
Backups are always good - using them isn't necessarily a good idea.
If you plan on modifying partition(s) - especially resizing, restoring a backup is probably the last thing you should do if you mess up.
dd is useless for logical partitions. I use "sfdisk -d ...", but I am very careful about what I subsequently do with it.
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I have a notebook with dual boot -> Vista and Debian.
If I setup 2 different systems on the same machine, after setup, normally I never try to change or resize partitions.
What I'm normally doing are security or OS updates.
Last time I had a virus and my Partition Table was distroyed.
It was really bad think, that I didn't done MBR and PT backup before.