>> Just some words of wisdom for EVERYONE out there. Immediately
>> after setting up any hard disk, and every time you modify a
>> partition table _ever_, you should IMMEDIATELY do:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/hostname-hda-todaysdate.ptbl bs=512 count=1
>
>Doesn't help if /root is on hda. You should really back up
>to (at least one) floppy as well.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I just meant to use /root as a
temporary storage place. Most definitely MULTIPLE copies should
be made on various backup media.
I keep 3 copies on floppy physically isolated.
One should check their backups every so often as well.
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