On 9/16/2022 6:34 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
On 9/16/2022 5:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 17:07 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
As far at the partition's bootsector, would that happen to be in the dump file? And I am pretty sure partition table entries or any of the MBR are not saved.
dump operates on filesystems, not disks, so it knows nothing about partition tables, boot sectors etc.
poc
I kind of thought that. I know it only works on the extended filesystems. I would have to enter partition data into the 16 byte entry field of the partition table manually, through fdisk or such. As far as writing a new BS formatting extX partition of course would take care of that. Other tweaks to the system would be what's concerning. Things like UUIDs especially with the root directory would be where I would get hung. Since I have no other users it would be a little more simple. IDK if anyone has done or does this so I thought I would ask for tips. I can scratch around online line for bits and pieces too of things.
BC
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