thats great!
But can you (or perhaps Bero) give a better explanation as to how you
determined the partition sizes? You might want to remind us what info you
had to start with etc.
I'd really like to understand this.
thanks
charles
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> With the help of Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, the partition has been restored
> on the drive that got screwed up.
>
> We were always able to see the first partition's file system, it was the
> 2nd one that eluded us. Then a light bulb turn on over Bernhard after I found
> that the 2nd filesystem was not starting on a cylinder boundary.
>
> It turns out that fdisk will not round to a cylinder boundary is a size
> is given, i.e., instead of using cylinders. It ended up where it ended up.
> Once the correct end location was determined for the 1st file system, it
> was easy to determine the start of the 2nd filesystem.
>
> A hearty thank you to Red Hat's Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.
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