Re: Invalid partition table, 1st entry [OFFTOPIC]

Brion Vibber (brion@gizmo.usc.edu)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:23:49 -0700 (PDT)


I just mangled my partition table the other day thanks to fdisk defaulting
to displaying cylinders only (I tried to delete and recreate a couple
partitions to change numbering but they weren't _on_ cylinder boundaries
to begin with)... I found a program called 'gpart' that scans the disk for
filesystems and creates a new partition table based on where it finds
them. A real lifesaver, of course you need enough of a rescue disk to run
it off of and someplace to compile it if you can't find a binary.

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

-- brion vibber (brion@gizmo.usc.edu)

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