On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Maurizio Marini wrote: >On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >> While we're on the subject of mbr's, how big is it? The first 512 bytes >> of the one I just saved is virtually empty. So I overwrote it with a 4kb >> version, b but that is bearing some resemblance to a list of inodes. > >AFAIK, it is still 512, by Roman's time, Caesar decided it... >i never have read anything about something different by 512 bytes. If your > 512 bytes are all 00x0 using hexdump, something goes wrong, >Which is the exact command do u issued? > -m dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 of=target.file -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Are you ever going to do the dishes? Or will you change your major to biology? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list