Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:22:39 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone had the same bad luck, i'll recommend to do this: > > 1. print out your partition table or rescue it, like Kevin said: fdisk > -ul /dev/hda >part.table 2. remove all the partitions > 3. create a new partition

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:54:53AM +0200, Qian Gong wrote: > I have an idea to recover the partition table. If you create a bigger > partition than the original file system. Then mount it and use df to get > the size of the file system, which is usually the same size as the > partition. Then use

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-03 Thread Qian Gong
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:40:54AM +0200, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hello, > > Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u > don't > play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data > should > be valid. > > Do you remember the approx sizes of all your

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread Roman Joost
Firstly - thanks for the help. Secondly i fixed it with a bit luck. I found a printout from my partition table so i removed all the rescued, but wrong partitions and created all partitions myself. It worked fine with one exception: i created my boot partition with: mkpartfs logical ext2 XXX -

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u don't play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data should be valid. Do you remember the approx sizes of all your partitions? Are the other partitions intact? Do you remember the partition schem

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command mklabel >:( .. damn... > > I tried the rescue comma

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:59:44 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command > mklabel:( .. damn... For today you're screwed. For tomorrow, whenever you set up your new partition table (and any time you make changes to it) save the d