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document updated 16 years ago, on Jun 13, 2008
The EASIEST way to identify what's in the MBR or VBR is to run `ms-sys` with no other arguments than
the device:

        % ms-sys /dev/sda1
        /dev/sda1 has a FAT32 file system.
        /dev/sda1 has an x86 boot sector,
        it is exactly the kind of FAT32 DOS boot record this program
        would create with the switch -3 on a FAT32 partition.




======[ MBR ]======

        dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 | md5sum


Windows 2000/XP/2003 MBR        b4045732ab94f8bda5ad56fde6d24c3b        ms-sys --mbr




======[ VBR ]======

        dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1 | md5sum