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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bad partition table. Fixable? Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:34:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4rt228$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rphtj$77n@polo.iquest.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dougal@vespucci.iquest.com (Dougal Campbell) wrote: > I've got a disk that suddenly has a bad partition table. Is there any > way to fix this without losing the data on the filesystem? partition table? Do you mean fdisk (which we call `slices'), or BSD partitions (from the disklabel)? Anyway, as long as nothing more has been damaged, and you happen to know the exact locations of your partitions on the disk, you should be able to resurrect either of both tables without losing data. The key point is whether your file system data are still intact, and whether you manage it to create new tables that point to the exact same locations as the original ones did. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)