On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 13:02 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 09/07/2018 12:19 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Friday, September 7, 2018 5:34:00 PM -04 Dominic Knight wrote: > > > Whilst trying to create one partition out of two (using disks) I > > > appear to have accidentally deleted the partition table of > > > (almost) the whole drive. <snip> > > Then diverse methods for partition table recovery are open to you. > > All the best > > E.L. > > > What the Doctor ordered: > How to Recover a Disk Partition with TestDisk and GParted Live > > https://ubuverse.com/recover-a-disk-partition-with-testdisk-and-gparted-live/ >
It seems the problem was that it wasn't really deleted at all, just 'disks' (the software program) being a bit useless and saying it was. I had wondered what I had done to cause it as I was fairly certain I had double checked what I was doing. I had deleted one partition ready to expand another into it when 'disks' decided to play a trick on me. Slightly worrying when it tells you there is one big empty drive, and then gpart reporting this Warning: more than 4 primary partitions: 6. Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary Ok. is a bug in that piece of software? There is actually one primary and one extended all are ext4. gparted reports all is good. Risked a reboot and everything is just fine. Thanks Dom.