Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:49:05PM +0000, Jim Kissel wrote:
>
>> I there any hope or recovery?
>
> Yes :)
>
>> System is DD 6.06 and is still up and running but I don't expect it to
>> survive a re-boot There was a XP partation of about 50G to start +
>> 200g for Linux
>
> You should look for the contents of the partition table in
> /proc/partitions - that should be enough to rebuild your disk(s).
>
Got them:
jlk@jlk-desktop:/proc$ cat partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 245117376 sda
8 1 242083453 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 3028221 sda5
253 0 242083453 dm-0
253 1 3028221 dm-1
and gpart reports:
jlk@jlk-desktop:/proc$ sudo gpart /dev/sda
Password:
Begin scan...
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(236409mb), offset(0mb)
Possible extended partition at offset(236409mb)
Possible partition(Linux swap), size(2957mb), offset(236409mb)
End scan.
Checking partitions...
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): primary
Ok.
Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 236409mb #s(484166904) s(63-484166966)
chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (0/1/1)-(30137/254/60)r
Primary partition(2)
type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86)
size: 2957mb #s(6056440) s(484167033-490223472)
chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (30138/1/1)-(30514/254/61)r
Primary partition(3)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
Primary partition(4)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
Which seems to agree. I have backed all data to CD. Should I let gpart
have a go at rebuilding it or to recommend rebuild by hand with fdisk or
similar?
> Steve
