Hi Kevin, There is a partition table file in the image dir, e.g. http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/showcontent.php?topic=02_Restore_disk_image the file "hda-chs.sf" is the partition table for hda, and its format is for sfdisk. Therefore you can manually restore the partition by: sfdisk /dev/hda < hda-chs.sf
//NOTE// sfdisk is a very powerful tool, which means it might make all your data on the disk disappear. Therefore use it very carefully. BTW, there is a tool called "testdisk" included in the Clonezilla live. It's also a good to "guess" and recovery the lost partition table. You can try it, too. Good luck. Steven. Kevin W. Wall wrote: > 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 > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
