[Gllug] Accessing hd with corrupt partition table

[Ian Norton]

gpart is very good,

unless your disk is physically damaged, if you are patient and read the docs it
seems to be good at its job,

Ian

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:09:16PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've got a 1Gig IDE drive which has a FAT32 partition, a linux swap partition 
> > and an ext2 partition on it. Unfortunately, so far as the partition table is 
> > concerned the total size is over 90Gig!!
> > 
> > Is there a program which would allow me to discover (or at least make a best 
> > guess at) the real partition geometry and use that info to read the FAT and 
> > ext2 partitions?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Dylan
> 
> I've used a package in Debian called gpart that may be useful to you.
> The home page seems to be unavailable at the moment, but the Debian 
> package and mirror sites are below:
>     http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/gpart.html
>     http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/gpart/
> 
> It's in beta development, but still usable.
> 
> An alternative could be GNU Parted:
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
> 
> 
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