Re: Protecting the partition table.
Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 01:57:13 +0100
> Most of the time just a reboot let's me continue with my work but sometimes the partition table gets trashed. When this happens, it's a 3 hour recovery time for me.
>
> Is there a way to protect the partition table so that it does not get trashed when the kernel crashes???
Not that I know of. I keep a floppy with more-or-less recent copies
of the boot sector around, so I can recover in less then three hours :-)
Make sure you get the boot sectors of all partitions and all hard disks
on that floppy, and make sure you can boot it.
Regards,
Martin