[ale] partition recoverry

[cfowler]

Just to be sure, back it up after you have recreated it.

sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.partition

If you ever have this problem again, you can supply that file to sfdisk
and it will recreate the partition table.

More Info:
http://www.sinologictech.com/dnloads/linux/diskimage.txt

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 01:59, Jordi S. Bunster wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:44, n4zm at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> The way you put it, it seems like you lost only the partition table.
> 
> If that's the case, there's a program called gpart, which is supposedly
> capable of guessing a possible partition table. The way I remember it,
> it was not very good finding out lost logical(not primary) partitions,
> but you lose nothing with trying.
> 
> I would dump the whole disk onto a file with dd, to have as a backup, in
> case someone else points out a better solution.
> 
> That said, the same thing happened to me once, and since I remembered
> the exact partition layout and size of each partition, I just re-created
> them. If you remember, you could give it a try. Use dd to make a backup
> of the original disk, though.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
>  -- Jordi
> 
-- 
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fix problems that leak through the abstraction.
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