> > > > But, if I do an fdisk l on /dev/sdb, I have no partitions listed. > > The kernel won't re-read the partition table if there are open > partitions, so whatever you do, DON'T REBOOT (it'll be gone then). > > Do you know the particulars of the old partition table? If so, just > re-run fdisk and recreate the partition(s) to match. > > If not, I'm not sure if there is a way to see what the running kernel > thinks the partition table looks like.
In my proc there is a partitions : cat /proc/partitions which in my case give an output like this: ban...@goloka-vrindaban:~$ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 78150744 sda 8 1 77902848 sda1 8 2 1 sda2 8 5 244736 sda5 8 32 1931264 sdc 8 33 1927768 sdc1 So, then you have at least the sizes (number of blocks) back then according to this faq run "fdisk -l" http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html I hope you'll save your weekend.. ;-) Regards, Arno _______________________________________________ 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
