Copying MBR

Posted: 2020-04-30 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I’ve been doing some disk partitions cloning between disks of different size. I needed to copy the master boot record (MBR), where LILO is, from one disk to another. I searched a bit and found a handy tutorial.
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Hiding disk partitions

Posted: 2015-10-03 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

My laptop has a Windows 7 disk partition, as well as a System and a Lenovo recovery partitions. I do not need these to be shown in my file browser (Thunar) nor in the open/save file dialogs. Read the rest of this entry »