From: Mark Knudson <mrk@rochester.rr.com>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Emergency: Is there a way to fix a partition table
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:22:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4159D618.30206@rochester.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <231dafb504092622352b9c17d2@mail.gmail.com>
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
>
>
> current output of table from fdisk
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 ? 21975 164058 1074152739 0 Empty
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda2 ? 168574 9274 943175203 be Solaris boot
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda3 ? 201952 44474 956950144 0 Empty
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda4 ? 1 1 0 4f QNX4.x 3rd part
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
About a year ago I trashed my partition table.
I used a program called testdisk that searched the disk and
reconstructed a new one for me. Check out the following link.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-27 5:35 Emergency: Is there a way to fix a partition table Dark Shadow
2004-09-27 6:56 ` Sonny Rao
2004-09-28 6:28 ` Dark Shadow
2004-09-28 18:39 ` Sonny Rao
2004-09-27 17:11 ` Chris Mason
2004-09-28 21:22 ` Mark Knudson [this message]
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