Re: gpart can retire now

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

On Sunday 27 June 2010 13:30:50 T o n g wrote:
> quick scan

An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui

You can use the same strategy for partition tables as data ...backups.

'fdisk -l /dev/xxxx'  > partition_table.txt, 

Then use fdisk to create partitons again. This will write a new partition 
table and formating is not part of this process.

I have recovered deleted partitions this way ,never had to do a whole hard 
drive.

I found this that has more detail:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html
-- 
Peace,

Greg