From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:29:12 +0200
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On 07/20/2007 02:22 PM, Al Boldi wrote:

> Oh, gpart is great, but if we had a backup copy of the partition table on
> every partition location on disk, then this backup copy could easily be
> reused to reconstruct the original partition table without further 
> searching.

As long as you don't reboot you have a "backup copy" in kernel. Admittedly 
not in a very nice format, but /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/start and size have 
saved my butt a few times...

Rene.