[ale] Rebuild partition table

[Jerry Yu]

sfdisk will do it.

On 1/24/07, Michael B. Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 00:42 -0500, Paul Borghese wrote:
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> So it looks like in the process of restoring my Windows disk, I corruptedmy  Linux disk partition table.  Any ideas on how to repair the partitiontable without loosing data?
>
>
> Not that this is going to help you at the immediate moment in time, but
> when I set up a system, I print out the disk configuration just in case this
> happens.  I let someone use a PC of mine a while back, and they were
> experimenting with something and fried my partition table, and I was left
> with no recovery option (and I didn't even have a backup!).  That's when I
> started keeping printed copies of the disk layout.
>
> For Linux systems, I use the output of fdisk -l and print it out on hard
> copy.  For *BSD systems, I print out both the disklabel and (on x86(-64)
> systems) the partition table as used by the BIOS.  That way, I don't have to
> worry if something gets in the way of my partition table.  In the case of
> BSD, the output can be fed right back into the utilities and the on-disk
> structures are recreated; Linux, though, makes you do it by hand (at least,
> there isn't a tool that I know of at present that you can type the fdisk
> -l output into to make it happy).
>
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