[ale] AIIGHH!! Anyone know howto restore my partition table?

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Thanx for the quick response.
Luckily - I remember that I had piped the output of an "sfdisk -l" call to a 
text file a while back and was able to recover it. I have now recreated my 
partition table by hand. Next, I have another computer with the same RedHat 
6.2 install and have made a diskimage of the boot partition. This machine, 
however, has an updated kernel (which is required to access my ATA/100 hdg 
drive) so I've got to run a "make install" on my kernel source to put the new 
kernel into boot and then re-run lilo and pray. Right now I'm waiting for my 
"dd if=/dev/hdc7 of=/dev/hdg3" to finish backing up my / tree data before I 
finish the kernel replacement. FWIW - I'm amazed that I've gotten this far 
without crashing and will truly be impressed if I can boot back into my 
system once this is done. Any other OS surely would have cracked up as soon 
as I overwrote the drive. Running dd on an 8GB partition takes a long time, 
however...
	
	best regards,

		Ben Scherrey

On Tuesday 18 September 2001 10:29 am, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Ugh. I managed to recover from this kind of thing once,
> but only by having written down the partition table when
> I first partitioned the drive. When I repartitioned,
> all the filesystems were OK, but I suspect that wouldn't
> be true for you, since you overwrote a lot of
> data at the beginning of the disk. If boot was > 9MB
> in size, then your other filesystems are probably OK.
>
> As for recovering your partition tables, you could try
> to cat /proc/partitions, or fdisk -l /dev/hdc; it may
> be that one or the other of those will give you the
> partition data as currently believed by the kernel,
> rather than what's on the disk. I'm not sure whether
> they will or not, but it's worth a shot.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -- Joe
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