Hi, On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, J. Epperson wrote:
> Arrived home very tired and in a lapse of judgement tried to configure a > new USB backup drive on my PERC3 based home server, with a new cat roaming > between me and the monitor. Created a new partition on the existing > /dev/sda instead of the new /dev/sdb. System is still running, and I"m > doing an rsync to the new drive now. > > Can some kind soul help me remember how to repair this surgically instead > of rebuilding the filesystem and reloading it? If not, I deserve it. You just need to revert the partition table change. If you do not have a backup of the master boot record (LILO would have one), you can use the df output to estimate the right cylinder numbers. If you need trial and error to find the boundaries, "tune2fs -l /dev/sdaX" is a non-destructive test. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg ([email protected], [email protected]) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Goettingen Registergericht: Goettingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
