Thanks, that worked beautifully and all is well again. I highly recommend gpart -- it did an admirable job of telling me where those deleted partitions actually were. I'll see if I can debianize it if someone isn't already doing that...
Begin3 Title: gpart Version: 0.1c Entered-date: 11JAN99 Description: A tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device. Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: DOS/Windows FAT, Linux ext2 and swap, OS/2 HPFS, Windows NTFS, FreeBSD and Solaris/x86 disklabels, Minix FS, Reiser FS. Keywords: hard disk primary partition table reconstruction Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michail Brzitwa) Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michail Brzitwa) Primary-site: http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/ ~42k gpart-0.1c.tar.gz Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/filesystems Platforms: Linux, FreeBSD Copying-policy: GPL End "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > Yes, if you have the exact partition geometries you can just add them back as > long as > you haven't created anything else on top of them since. > > David Coe wrote: > > > Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are > > in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8). > > > > I've done nothing since then but a lot of reading. > > > > Can I safely add them back using fdisk or sfdisk (or cfdisk or > > something else? I know their physical locations and sizes > > and have verified (using a nice tool called gpart) that they're > > apparently still intact. > > > > If not, how can I find and update the extended partition table > > without modifying the partitions' contents? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R & D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com