Re: mklabel wiped my partition table (hint: mklabel is not MSDOS label)

[bug-parted]

Solved at last!

Here's what did the trick: sudo dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=512
count=1
More details here: http://snipurl.com/c355

The only catch with using this file as backup is that it only gets
written once, after installation. When needed, it might be outdated if
additional changes were done afterwards (luckily, this was not a problem
in my case).

To sum up my conclusions from this almost-disaster, Parted needs the
following:

1. Better name for mklabel
2. Better phrasing for the description of this command
3. Fresh backup of the partition table, created prior to committing any
changes
4. Less stupid users ;-)

Regards,

Prog.