Gilles wrote: > 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.
That is a key bit of information you omitted initially. >>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? You want to preserve contents of /dev/sda2? What were you trying to change? Just the starting sector of sda1? > 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 :-/ You can recreate the partitions just as they were before you ran parted...mklabel, assuming you know their starting and ending sector numbers.
