> I can delete the recovery partition, as I've got the "recovery" (AKA > factory reset) disks from HP under warranty. Personally if you have a large enough separate drive and enough patience. I would do a bit level copy which if successful is guaranteed to put the disk back exactly. #/bin/dd bs=32k if=/dev/sd? | /usr/bin/gzip > /media/usb0/hpBACKUP.dd.gz Restore with #/bin/cat /media/usb0/hpBACKUP.dd.gz | /usr/bin/gunzip | /bin/dd bs=32k of=/dev/sd? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
