[ltp] Backing up the Predesktop Area?

[Brad Langhorst]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:00, Wolfgang Rether wrote:

> 
> Has anybody of you managed to read that partition? Would it be
> possible to back it up with "dd" like this?
> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/tmp/ibm_predesktop.bin bs=512 conv=notrunc,noerror
> 
that would work - just make sure that you also backup a copy of the
partition table so you'll know where to restore your dump.

I think it would be easier to use partimage
never tried it myself...

brad