Re: help! dd wiped out source partition

1999-02-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Richard E. Hawkins writes: > > I then made a partition the same size as /home at the very end of > > the disk, and used dd to copy the old partition to the new. > *Exactly* what dd command did you give? What does the new partition look > like now? dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hda7 where 6 was the

Re: help! dd wiped out source partition

1999-02-19 Thread John Hasler
Richard E. Hawkins writes: > I then made a partition the same size as /home at the very end of > the disk, and used dd to copy the old partition to the new. *Exactly* what dd command did you give? What does the new partition look like now? I am very much afraid that you copied the new partition

help! dd wiped out source partition

1999-02-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Augh This one is *really* bad Several months ago, when i repartitioned, I fooollishly left half the disk after the last partition. Today, I printed out the partition table from fdisk, deleted the extended partion, placed a new one, and reentered the locations of the logical partitions. I t