Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

[David Coe <dcoe@overlord.com>]

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...

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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:         mb@ichabod.han.de (Michail Brzitwa)
Maintained-by:  mb@ichabod.han.de (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.
> >
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