7 Jul
2007
7 Jul
'07
4:47 p.m.
On 7/7/07, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
Asking him to do an fdisk -l or vol_id is far far safer than getting him to navigate the commands from the fdisk prompt as both of the above merely list the information we need and then exit. fdisk has bitten many a pro, let alone a newcomer :)
mkswap caught me out once - it doesn't check the partition is marked as a swap partition so it nuked the first few sectors of a FAT partition. After much buggering about with a hokey copy of Norton Utilities I was able to reconstruct the boot sector and copy the 2nd copy of the FAT over the remains of the first.
I suspect NTFS is not as simple as that.
Tim.