btextract doesn't restore partition table.

From: Pierre Bergdolt <Pierre.Bergdolt_at_alcatel.fr>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:11:00 +0200

Hello,

I'm trying to use btcreate/btrestore in order to have a dat
that permit me to fully rebuild a system (after a disk crash for
example).

I did the follwing test:
First one:

make a bootable tape of the system (miniroot in mfs file system + save
of all partitions)
clear filesystems (but I didn't change disklabel)
then reboot with bootable tape and reload the system.
In this case everything work well.


Then I did the following
make a bootable tape,
then change the disklabel, then reboot on the tape and try to
reload the system. But in this case btextract failed to restore
filesystem because disklabel has changed and partition no longer exist.

Is there a way to tell btextract to restore original disklabel before
restoring?
I saw that in the /etc of the miniroot there was a disklabel_info file
that contain
original diskabel in text format. But but I manually try to restore this
diskalbel it allways
fail telling me that "Open partition will move or shrink". I try
disklabel -e, -R , -W....

Any help or suggestion will be welcome,
Regards
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