On Tuesday 01 April 2003 18:24, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday March 31 2003 08:18 am, Anguo wrote: > > Sorry, My question was not complete. I need more something > > like a diagnostic tool. The partition table has been messed > > up with (in particular the FS type)... :-( > > So I need to figure out, not what the partition table, but > > what the FS was when the partition was created and used. > > > > Also, following some crashes and unfortunate recovery > > attempts, three secondary ext2 partitions have merged into > > one bigger one. I know where the first one starts and where > > the last one ends but not where they have merged. As a > > result this (big) partition will not mount either, even > > read only. > > > > What I really need is more info on some diagnostic and > > recovery tool that may be available... > > I'm not very good at fixin problems like this. It only happened > to me once sometime ago. Self inflicted :) IIRC, I tried booting the > install disk, and updating. Can't remember if that fixed it, or I had > to go ahead an re-install.
I just stumbled across a tool that might be of some help, it's called gpart. I messed up my mbr partition table (please don't ask) and needed to get my partitions reread. It works fine booting into a busybox shell with a floppy (or CD) and then running gpart from another floppy on which the binary has been copied. i.e. on the cml in the running busybox (after checking dmesg if your drive is seen at all): mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/floppy ./gpart /dev/hda (or whatever your disk is) and away it goes guessing the partitions and the filesystems they contained including size et all:o) Very nifty, indeed! A lifesaver:o) You can get it here: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart Good hunting, HarM
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