Re: HELP! did something incredably stupid
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to retreive information about the size of an ext2
> partition?
>
> I filled the first 1024 bytes of my harddisk with zeros, because LILO did
> not want to downgrade. I realised too late that this would wipe out my
> partition table as well. I have been able to recreate a new partition
> table with only one partition and luckily my systems boots. Problem is
> that I had two partitions: first my ext2 and at the end a swap partition.
> I do not know where my (original) first partition ended.
>
> Can anybody help me out?
>
The Linux partition mini HOWTO has a section about `Recovering a
Deleted Partition Table'. The Partition-Rescue mini HOWTO seems
relevant as well, at least by its name. As far as I remember, at least
the former address your case.
> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastiaan
>
>
>
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> (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98
> 16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a
> *real* 32-bit system.
>
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