From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:29:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A0AA98.5060901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707201522.17270.a1426z@gawab.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-20 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 5:13 [RFH] Partion table recovery Al Boldi
2007-07-20 5:20 ` Dave Young
2007-07-20 5:57 ` Dave Young
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 5:25 ` [RFH] Partion " James Lamanna
2007-07-20 7:00 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 11:53 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-07-20 5:35 ` [RFH] Partion " Willy Tarreau
2007-07-20 5:44 ` Dave Young
2007-07-20 7:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 11:39 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-20 12:22 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-20 12:29 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-07-20 16:06 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-21 17:54 ` Rene Herman
[not found] ` <20070722011141.GJ26752@thunk.org>
2007-07-22 4:10 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-22 16:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-22 19:05 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-22 21:23 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-07-23 8:15 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 8:41 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-23 10:54 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 12:39 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 13:15 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-23 13:32 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 20:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-23 13:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-24 4:08 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-22 9:11 ` Rene Herman
[not found] ` <20070722163934.GB20174@thunk.org>
[not found] ` <46A45A01.5050709@gmail.com>
2007-07-23 13:48 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-24 3:41 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-20 6:47 ` [RFH] Partion " Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 7:35 ` [RFH] Partion " Anton Altaparmakov
2007-07-21 19:40 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-07-23 20:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-24 3:45 ` Rene Herman
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