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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:22:42 +0200
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.11 loses sda9
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:07:22AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

> If you have sfdisk, sfdisk /dev/sda -O /tmp/foo + mailing the result would
> make debugging the thing much simpler (that one - from the 2.4.10).

Probably you mean sfdisk -d /dev/sda > /tmp/foo or so?
My favourite tends to be sfdisk -l -uS -x /dev/sda

The -O option saves the sectors that are changed by the sfdisk call
to some file, so that a later undo is possible.

Andries
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