On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:31:24 +0100, Gilles <codecompl...@free.fr> wrote:
>On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:15:46 +0100, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> >wrote: >>Then you want two primary partitions, and you already know >>their types and starting and ending sector numbers, so do this: >> >> parted -s $dev mkpart primary ntfs 63s 29302559s >> parted -s $dev mkpart primary ext3 547013250s 625137344s > >Thanks Jim. I only want to recreate /dev/sda1, as /dev/sda2 contains >the images of the different OS's I use for testing. > >If I only run the first command, will Parted recreate /dev/sda1 and >leave /dev/sda2 alone, or should I use an alternative to fdisk/cfdisk >that can 1) start at sector 63 instead of sector 2048 and 2) use a >given sector as end instead of a size in MB? Turns out just running "parted -s $dev mklabel msdos" (I commented out the two following lines) wasn't a good idea, as it deleted the two partitions on /dev/sda :-/
