I had some problems like this, where fdisk and cfdisk could no longer deal with my disk. I posted somewhere and this wonderful fellow
A. E. Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) answered. He wrote fdisk3 . Some times it can read broken tables , get the good info and spit out a clean one. It worked like a charm for me. I don't know if there is a debian package. I can't remeber where to get it. Probably takes 20 second web search or just go to sunsite. On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Lawrence wrote: > butch wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any > > ways to correct or edit partition errors? > > > > allan > > Few months ago, I tried using cfdisk to set the linux partition (>2GB), > and both linux and msdos fdisk denied to run and I have to low-level > format my SCSI HD to rectify the problem. > G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .