[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

Rudy L. Zijlstra rudy at edsons.demon.nl
Fri Jul 25 20:12:40 EST 2003


Staci wrote:

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>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Travis Casey wrote:
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>>was on a Trustix Linux system, using fdisk.  Once I re-entered the
>>partition table information, all was well.
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>And how exactly did you dO that?  Not by just remaking the partition using fdisk.....
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All my experience using fdisk (as supplied with slackware) is that it 
does just 1 thing: write the partition table(s), and nothing more.
This in marked difference from DOS fdisk.... You could boot a linux 
system from a bootable CD and see what you can recover that way.

Rudy



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