Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +0000, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew@weierophinney.net) wrote:
> > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night,
> > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into
> > my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I
> > can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what
> > partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted
> > windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and
> > fs-type).
> >
> > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme?
>
> gpart may be able to help you.
Doh!
I'd skimmed Matthew's email and assumed he'd *damaged* the disk somehow.
Not.
If you're just trying to read the partition table off a disk, fdisk,
cfdisk, or any other full-featured partitioning tool should be able to
read it. That's what the system-info script (below) does.
That said: Print out the table, post it to your website, etc.
> If you remember the partition sizes, you can try rebuilding the
> partition table and mounting filesystems *READ ONLY*, which may
> succeed in recovering some (or all) of your partitions. This is not
> quite as improbable as it sounds.
>
> This is also a very good illustration of why you should keep vital
> system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a
> remotely accessible system).
>
> I use a script "system-info" to provide this and other data:
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info
Peace.
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