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Old 07-01-2012, 03:08 PM   #21
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The "dumping" process is to make dumps, probably useful as backups of original data. Thinking of it, dumping the first ~32MB is probably a good idea in any case. It also serves as a quick test of the connection to the Kindle.

Currently, it's mainly partition images for the root partition and kernels what's floating around. We probably need partition table, eink data, uboot and some other stuff, too. However, in the first few sectors there's also a device identifier, I think. This should probably remain untouched for general-purpose recovery.
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