Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 1999 05:41:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | Osman <> | Subject | Re: Question: finding boundaries of ext2fs-partitions. |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 05:38:25 +0200 (CEST) > From: Osman <osman@Cable.EU.org> > > I heard from an other list that there was a discussion here a few weeks > ago or some, about this topic. > I need a prg wich will help me in rebuilding/recreating my partition > table. > The data is still there, only the table was lost due to a mistake I made > while installing RH6.0.
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> Anyway, here's Anderies's list: > > (i) findsuper is a small utility that finds blocks with the ext2 > superblock signature, and prints out location and some info. > It is in the non-installed part of the e2progs distribution. > > (ii) rescuept is a utility that recognizes ext2 superblocks, > FAT partitions, swap partitions, and extended partition tables; > it prints out information that can be used with fdisk or sfdisk > to reconstruct the partition table. > It is in the non-installed part of the util-linux distribution. > > (iii) fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html) > is a utility that handles ext2, FAT, NTFS, ufs, BSD disklabels > (but not yet v1 Linux swap partitions); it actually will rewrite > the partition table, if you give it permission. > > (iv) gpart (http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/) is a utility > that handles ext2, FAT, Linux swap, HPFS, NTFS, FreeBSD and > Solaris/x86 disklabels, minix, reiser fs; it prints a proposed > contents for the primary partition table, and is well-documented. > > Hope this helps!
Wow, Thanks a LOT man! This is JUST the kind of info I was searching for, I will try them out when I get a hold of them.
Thanks again! Osman -- To boldly go where I surely don't belong.
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