From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dark Shadow Subject: Re: Emergency: Is there a way to fix a partition table Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:28:52 -0600 Message-ID: <231dafb5040927232866a4924f@mail.gmail.com> References: <231dafb504092622352b9c17d2@mail.gmail.com> <20040927065608.GA25236@kevlar.burdell.org> Reply-To: Dark Shadow Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040927065608.GA25236@kevlar.burdell.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sonny Rao , Dark Shadow , reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:56:08 -0400, Sonny Rao wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:35:55AM -0400, Dark Shadow wrote: > > I don't have a backup of the partition table and was wondering if > > there was a way to auto scan and have it come up with one. It had 2 > > partitions both reiserfs v3 and fully functioning Linux installs > > > > I have made a dd image of the entire drive to work with > > > > This is very important that I get it fixed since even though I have a > > day old backup I got a couple files I really don't want to lose (9gb > > of tv capturecard captures)and I need the system fully functioning in > > a day > > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/gpart > > This program has worked for me in the past. > > -- > Sonny Rao > Well using gpart to scan comes up with it guess as all unused I tried having it scan the backup that lilo makes but it was a really old version as in the file was dated 2002-04-18 which since I started setting up that lfs install 2002-04-17 would of been created on first install of lilo and has not been updated over time