On Tuesday 09 September 2003 04:19, Linus Drouhard wrote: > This is over my head. I have tried cfdisk, and everything "looks" to be in > order. I was able to recreate a 39 GB partition on the leftover space and > get it mounted as ext3. I couldn't format it as xfs (like the rest of my > partitions). I still can't do anything with the rest of the partition. > When I run cfdisk, it will let me write the new partition table, but then > it errors on rereading the table and tells me to reboot. It still isn't > right after a reboot. I think I'm staring at a complete wipe of the drive > and starting from scratch.
Don't be too quick on that. There are two tools to help you here: "testdisk" and "gpart". I've had the best results with testdisk myself, especially in the case of rewriting partition tables. gpart is more thorough by the looks of it. Try them both but start with "testdisk" I'd say. testdisk can be gotten as an rpm (testdisk-4.4-2.i386.rpm) on their site: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html Gpart can be found as SRPM at cooker but at http://smokeping.planetmirror.com/pub/gpart/ you can download the statically linked version which works fine on my mdk9.x systems and it's small enough to keep on a floppy:o) Mind you they're both console tools! Good luck, HarM
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