Re: HELP! did something incredably stupid
Hi,
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:16:21PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | Is there a way to retreive information about the size of an ext2
> | partition?
> |
> | Can anybody help me out?
>
> Hopefully you haven't done anything with your system that might write
> to the disk. Get the 'gpart' utility and stick it on a floppy, boot
> with the rescue (install) disk and run it. It worked wonders for me.
> Fortunately for you you didn't have any data partitions beyond the
> first partition! (I had / then swap then /home). Then you can use
> (c)fdisk from the install disk to recreate your partition table. Then
> (once you've rebooted) print out that table!
>
Thanks! Works amazingly well.
Sebastiaan
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