On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:25:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | - gpart Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions | ...gpart sounds promising. You've tried this yet?
As of now I have :-). Some other people mentioned it off-list. It came up with fairly close sector numbers. I say fairly close because fdisk complained that my partitions weren't on cylinder boundaries and the highest sector number was before the end of the disk. The realy weird thing is, if I move the last partition's start to align with the start of the cylinder, e2fsck fails. If I leave that part the cylinder unused and use the sector number that gpart reported it works fine. Also, I was sure I had 256MB swap space before. gpart reported it as 243MB. Close though. Now I'm diverging a bit to disk partitioning software : are there discrepancies between different partitioning software (such as fdisk and cfdisk) as to sector/cylinder/megabyte size conversions? If so, then that might explain why I'm getting the slightly off numbers now. Thanks for all the help! My system is at least usable now (it seems). -D PS. for those who might come across this in the archives, despite the lack of a search mechanism, _gpart is cool and works well_.
