[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

Elizabeth Barham lizzy at soggytrousers.net
Fri Jul 25 04:50:39 EST 2003


Mary writes:

> Assuming she recovers the data, there's nothing stopping her
> attempting to partition again.

But I mean since she re-partitioned it from what it was, stopped,
realized her mistake, can she not simply reverse the changes to the
partition table?

Provided she does not alter the partition in anyway from what it was
previously, it seems to me that the start address for each partition
would go back to where it was. Since that area of the disk is already
formatted with her old data, then the system would:

1) Read the partition information from the partition table at boot,
   and
2) Check the same physical spot on the drive for the partition on
   mount, which is the same as before.

Provided fdisk does not alter the data on the physical partitions
themselves but rather only alters the partition table on the drive,
and provided that there is no timestamp or other type of state that
cannot be re-created, then it sounds to me as though it would work but
I have not tried it.

Elizabeth


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