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some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Just killed partition table

Hi, I was trying out larch and I chose sda2 instead of sdb1, I still have access to all my files and patitions for now.
I know I shouldn't restart, is there anything I can do to fix the partitioning without losing data?

*goes to start a backup*

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Just killed partition table

If you're sure it's just the partition table, either reconstruct the original table from a backup (preferably) or from memory (known to be unreliable), or else use gpart to guess the original table.

some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Re: Just killed partition table

If you're sure it's just the partition table, either reconstruct the original table from a backup (preferably) or from memory (known to be unreliable), or else use gpart to guess the original table.

THANK YOU.

Here what I did:
* Save /proc/partitions
* Load the archlinux live cd
* Started parted
* Blocks are approximately equal to kiB so I did 'unit kiB'
* From there its just 'rescue FIRSTFREEKiB FIRSTFREEKiB+PARTITIONSIZE'
* The only problem is with extended partitions  (not ext2/3/4), those need to manually be made

BTW, I have one ext4 partition which is reported by parted as ext3. Is there anyway to change it, or is it even a problem ?