Hi Alvin,
> if hda5 was your extended partition ... than all subsequent
> logical partions will go pooff when you delete the (reference)
> extended partition
not so, hda5 was the first logical partition inside the
extended partition.
> as long as oyu didnt write any new data to the disk, your
> partitions are still there ... nor format the partitions
no, havent written anything nor formatted anything :)
> for restoring ... your ext4 is probably end-hda3+1 till end-of-disk
yeah, that's right.
> was logical hda5 starting from n or m ... till o or was it p
> was hda6 starting from o+1 till p or qq was hda7 starting
> from p+1 till q or rr ...
it n to m, m+1 to o, o+1 to p, so on...
> if you followed a particular partition size creation pattern,
> +2M, +10M, +10M for your partition size, fdisk might get you
> back to the right cylinder start and ending info again
well, how to get fdisk to get the right partition table?
I don't know of such a thing. But, meanwhile I will read
the man pages thoroughly. Thanks.
-vikas
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