[parted-devel] MBR Conversion and Preservation

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Matt Davis wrote:
> I've been trying to dig around and come up with useful features for parted, that
> I can do now, while waiting for the big VFS rework to get started.
> 
> -Idea 0x00- Save/Load an MBR to file
> 
> This would allow users, who toast their MBR to safely restore it.  Its nothing
> more than ` dd bs=512 count=1 if=dev of=user-file-name` merely implemented as a
> read 512B and write to a user specified file.  Likewise, ability to load/restore a previously saved MBR from this file would be convenient too.
> 
> 
> -Idea 0x01- Convert from one label to another label
> This could be useful, I've never had to do such, and I actually wonder if it
> would be useful to anyone else?
> 
> 
> -Matt (Enferex)
> 

I don't know how easy it is, but if you are looking for something, being
able to use parted to automatically resize the partition to match the
LVM being resized would be nice.

James