On 20/11/14 20:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: >>> On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>>>> On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >>>>>>> I think it's msdos. >>>> AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of >>>> slices. :( > > MS-DOS partition tables support any number of logical partitions.
... using E(P)BRs - limited only by disk space for them. Thanks for the correction Pascal, apologies to the OP for the misinformation. > >>> MSDOS extended partitions contain a linked list of logical partitions. >>> It looks, from the pattern of that table, like the linked list has been >>> corrupted so as to form a cycle. > > Indeed, after logical partition 8 it seems to loop back to logical > partition 6. > >> A dd of the first 512 bytes will show you whether you've overextended >> your MBR. If you have - that will explain the corruption (dos is limited >> to 512b). > > No, the MBR does not contain the chained extended partition tables. correct (again), they can be located anywhere on the disk > >> The somewhat good news is that it's fixable. > > Yes. If recovery tools such as testdisk or gpart cannot fix the loop, my > tool of choice would be sfdisk to export, edit by hand (keep partitions > 1 to 8 only) and recreate the partition table. Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546dc4a8.8070...@gmail.com
