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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.11 loses sda9
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Guest section DW wrote:

> 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.

... and the contents of these sectors is precisely what I would like to see.

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