[ale] Bad partion table - addendum

[Matt Shade]

Maybe I'm just tired tonight and need to tackle this in the
morning.....I do have an fdisk listing for it, so I tried what you
recommended - deleted the partitions, then readded them the way they
were, but still get "bad partition table" when I write it.

If I try to mount it, i get a message about the superblock, so I tried
e2fsck on an alternate superblock, and even that bombs with a message
about trying to read past the end of the partition. 

I think I need to look at it fresh in the morning. My brain hurts  :)

Matt

Xenakis wrote:
> heh - I just got that last night for some odd reason - completely
> unprovoked....anyway,
> to fix that, you should have a copy of linux fdisk's output handy -
> unless you can remember the size of all of you partitions...
> 
> I found that it was handy to have a copy of all the time, and added
> 'fdisk -l' to a small backup to a floppy disk...
> 
> If you can remember what they are, just pick which drive it is, then
> just linux fdisk it...wipe out the old partitions (using d), then once
> all the old partitions are deleted (before the write), re-create them of
> the exact same size (blocks, mbs, etc) - if they aren't exact, you
> cannot rescue your data =(
> 
> once you have re-added your partitions, you can write the partition
> table ('w'), then all is entact (hopefully =)
> 
> if all goes well, you are back alive and kicking in 3 minutes flat...
> if it doesn't work, try guessing your paritition sizes until you get it
> write =]
> 
> I seem to recall this posted to sunsite, under recovery or something....
> let me know if you have any problems....
> 
> oh yeah, if you do have a copy of fdisk -l, but cannot access it, use:
> 
> dd if=<device> | grep <some fdisk string> | less
> 
> good luck
> 
> --
> 
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