[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

[iriXx]

Staci wrote:


> I think what I really need is for someone to tell me how to rewrite the partition table.
> If there's a tool that'll look at what's there and rewrite the table based on that.
> I get the feeling that's what gpart is supposed to do, and there might be a way to do it with parted too, but I
> don't understand how. :(
> 
> Is there a way to do it without tools?
> 


have you tried cfdisk? (curses-based fdisk)

it requires a bit of reading of the man pages, but its got wonderful 
tools in the 'type' section and 'geometry'. it saved my machine last 
night when i'd had this problem: 
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1027465246
which is apparently due to conflicts between Partition Magic 8 and 
Linux. somehow PM had managed to set my windows partition to hidden, so 
i had to change the type of filesystem - theres a huge choice under cfdisk.

i'm not sure if this will help in your situation but i wanted to point 
it out as an invaluable tool (and something worth knowing if you're 
running xp and suddenly everything goes belly up...!)

bw

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