Months back I used Clonezilla-live (1.2.2.something) to do a full image backup of an internal hard drive to an external USB hard drive. The internal disk was Linux-only and had a separate boot partition w/ MBR. File systems were all either ext2 (boot partition) or ext3 or swap. Running OpenSUSE 11.0 if that matters.
Weeks ago, my son power-cycled the PC and it seems to have caused the the partition table to have been completely wiped and unfortunately, I don't have a hard copy of it anywhere. Am unable to check the file systems via fsck but have been able to successfully mount of few of the file systems (read-only just in case) and the data itself seems to be intact. Since it's been months since my latest backup (my bad; I figured I could get away w/ it since it's only used by my son playing BZFlag and developing BZFlag maps), I'd prefer not to simply restore the disk image, but rather would like to use the Clonezilla-live saved image from my USB drive to ONLY RESTORE THE PARTITION TABLE, but NOT any of the partitions. Any pointers (URLs are fine if you point to the right section) of how to do this? I read something about a '-j0' option to restore partition table, but it says not to use if I have logical drives and I don't recall if this OpenSUSE was installed / configured using LVM or not. (It's was an upgrade from OpenSUSE 10.1 which was build using a custom partitioning scheme.) Is there a way to tell if it was using LVM and logical partitions? And if it was, what then? I could just restore the whole drive and my son will be SOL wrt his BZFlag maps. My only "punishment" would be to have to do all the OpenSUSE updates again and put up with my son castigating me for not doing more regular backups. (Something I told HIM to do which is why I gave him a USB thumb drive.) Anyway, any help would be appreciated. TIA, -kevin -- Kevin W. Wall "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." -- Nathaniel Borenstein, co-creator of MIME ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
