Thank you very much for your reply Antoine.


So RPM only tries to automatically restore the partition table when he sees that
the partitions in the MBR don't match the information in the special RPM partion
at the end of the disk, correct?

So, in principle there shouldn't be any problem with removing one HDD. From RPM
point of view, all the HDDs are coherent, in the sense that the information in
the MBR matches with the info in the special RPM partition at the end of the
disk.

> *UNLESS* you are using a strange setup of a customized version of
> Ranish boot manager to boot directly to the 2nd or 3rd disk
> _and_ hiding some other partitions meanwhile, it is very unlikely
> to have RPM writing partition tables of the _other_ drives
> "automagically."

I'm using either RPM 2.43 or 2.44 (I don't remember which one), which was
downloaded from here a long time ago (3 years ago I think).

What exactly is the meaning of "to boot directly to the ..."?
I only boot to the first hard drive, but my other 2 drives have the boot flag
enabled in order to silent RPM warning of them not having any boot partition
set.

Once again thank you.