[Gllug] Accessing hd with corrupt partition table

[Ian Norton]

by patient, i mean, dont be tempted to give up if gpart is busy for 4 hrs,

Ian

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:48:04PM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> 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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