19 Mar 2009 Backup partition table
This post describes how you can backup your partition table for future recovery.
Backup
This example describes how you can backup the disk partition table on /dev/sda
dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.mbr bs=512 count=1
It’s also useful to keep a human readable copy of the disk layout for future reference
sudo fdisk -l > partitions.lst
Restore
This example shows how you can recover your file system using your partition table backup.
dd if=sda.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
This is a nice way to keep the information about your file system and will it help you in the future if you get disk corruption.
This does not only apply to linux partitions but all types of partitions.
Tags: backup, dd, fdisk, recovery
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
18 Mar 2009 Change file date in linux using touch
To change the date on all files in a folder to 19th February 2009 at 18:00 using the linux command touch
# touch * -t "200902191800"
It’s a nice way to correct file dates.
Replace * with the actual file name if you don’t want to correct all files in the current folder.
Tags: touch
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
16 Mar 2009 Valid Flash
I’ve gotten tired of my Flashpresentation movies not being valid HTML. After some research and a tip from a friend of mine I found this solution to the problem.
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="images/banner.swf" width="288" height="128"> <param name="movie" value="images/banner.swf" /> <img src="banner.gif" width="288" height="128" alt="banner" /> </object>
It works great and shows a image file if Flash support isn’t available.
Source: http://www.ambience.sk/flash-valid.htm
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
