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How To Backup & Restore Master Boot Record (MBR) In Linux

by lifeLinux on August 22, 2011

A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer. It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems.

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How To Find Hard Drive Specifications

by lifeLinux on May 19, 2011

There are many tools to get hard drive information such as smartctl, hdparm, hwinfo… In this article, i will use hdparm command which provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem.

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