<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Tom,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What would be the advantage of such a feature in parted, as opposed to `dd if=/dev/sda of=backup.bin bs=512 count=34`?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">IMHO, whatever the format of the file of this hypothetical feature is, you want it to be compatible across tools and time. Hence, I would expect the final effect to be no different than what the above dd command does.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My 2 cents,</div><div dir="auto">Cristian</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, 19:37 tom, <<a href="mailto:tom_234@gmx.de">tom_234@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi devels,<br>
<br>
I have used parted for many years. A essential feature what i missed for<br>
years is the possibility to save the partition tableĀ to a file and<br>
restore it. At present you have to use a second tool, but i think this<br>
is such a important feature for partition work, thatĀ it has to be<br>
integrated. thanks for reading<br>
<br>
regards<br>
tom from germany<br>
<br>
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