Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:26:01PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> Add a feature to backup the old boot sectors before overwritting
> them with grub2 boot and core images. Users can later recover the
> previous boot sectors with grub-install --recover option.
> 
> P.S. I found this might be a useful feature after I overwrote my
> second PGP encrypted hard disk (Windows XP installed) boot sectors
> by grub2 by mistake.

I think making a backup is a fine idea, but I'd rather avoid the "option
creep".  It doesn't hurt to simply dump the files in /boot/grub/.  If user
later discovers that valuable data was overwritten, she can figure out
how to call dd just as she can figure out the right parameters for
grub-install.

-- 
Robert Millan

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