Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:16:21 +0100 (cet)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A friend lost her partition table...
>
> Is there a scanning tool that can restore it?
I don't know of any.
There is a mini-HOWTO dealing with this topic.
http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/Partition-Rescue.html
Actually, there are two such tools. The mini-HOWTO should be updated to
reflect this if it doesn't already:
(i) fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html)
is a utility that handles ext2, FAT, NTFS, ufs, BSD disklabels
(but not yet v1 Linux swap partitions); it actually will rewrite
the partition table, if you give it permission.
(ii) gpart (http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/) is a utility
that handles ext2, FAT, Linux swap, HPFS, NTFS, FreeBSD and
Solaris/x86 disklabels, minix, reiser fs; it prints a proposed
contents for the primary partition table, and is well-documented.
- Ted
