> Why did the partition table get erased?
i've personally seen two cases where a linux partition table got
munged and both were because the drive in question was terminally ill.
i recovered one case by running fdisk and reentering the exact setup
it had before (in an unusual fit of good sense i had written it down).
that drive died for good two weeks later. the other case we tried
reinstalling and the drive went bye-bye right after the reinstall
finished. FWIW, the first drive was a western digital and the second a
fujitsu.
it's also possible for DOS or windows stuff, esp. viri, to mess up
partition tables, including linux partitions. i've also heard of cases
where the NT disk admin tool totally hosed linux. never tried it
myself.
> Did you have something to do with it?
uh, no. nuking a partition table would be a pretty evil thing for a
hacker to do, but i'd think they'd do a mke2fs as well to finish the
job. set up a little ramdisk, chroot to it, and scorch earth.
tim
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