Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:29:12 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery |
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On 07/20/2007 02:22 PM, Al Boldi wrote:
> Oh, gpart is great, but if we had a backup copy of the partition table on > every partition location on disk, then this backup copy could easily be > reused to reconstruct the original partition table without further > searching.
As long as you don't reboot you have a "backup copy" in kernel. Admittedly not in a very nice format, but /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/start and size have saved my butt a few times...
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