Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > See, wichert, the -z option is of no use if you have at least some valuable > information in your partition table. Starting from scratch does not help > you fixing a small problem in a single partition for example. I only mentioned it because it would help in this one particular case. Personally I really don't like the cfdisk interface and find fdisk much easier to use (besides, I've used it so often I can use it blindly by now :) > (cfdisk only accepts MB's as input when asking for partition size, do I need > to say more? You can rescue a disk by looking at the exact sectors where > your partition starts, and entering them in fdisk. I have done so and > recovered my whole system, two primary and three logical partitions) For the real hardcore stuff I wrote my own libfdisk. Still doesn't work, but it does give you ultimate control.. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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