On Tue, June 29, 2010 15:39, 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). >
Thanks. If I get some rest I may be able to think through it. It was a stock /boot on sda1 and / on sda2, with swap on sda3, no lvols, no other partitions. I have a df so I know the sizes, but not sure I'm capable of translating that to what I need to do with parted/gparted to line the partitions up exactly as before. It will probably keep running happily until I try to reboot 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
