If it is a fedora/centos/redhat based system, you might be able to get some partitioning hints out of /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.
--Chris On 6/29/2010 2:39 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:32:02PM -0700, 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. > If you know exactly how the previous partitions were laid out, you can > just recreate that structure. > > The underlying filesystem data will be fine. > > I'm sure there's a way to glean the partition structure information > from the layout of data on your disk as well... especially if it was > fairly simple (ie, /boot as ext2 and / as ext3 or LVM). > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > 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
