if you haven't rebooted, look in: /proc/partitions
to figure out your old partition table. use that data to re-create the partition table... if you've lost the info, you can try gpart to see if it can scan and figure it out: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html good luck! -Bond > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-poweredge- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Epperson > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 12:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Blew away my partition table > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
