[Wylug-help] Disaster recovery: how to use gpart properly

[shaun laughey]

Hiya Dave,

Yeah CHS stuff is a PITA. Especially if your BIOS is helpful and screws it all 
up for you like mine does.

Perhaps testdisk will be more your cup of tea. I just tested it on a vmware 
victim and it seemed to see the extended partitions properly following a 
quick fdisk.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/MBR_and_partition_recovery

Use this and the output from /proc/partitions if you haven't rebooted yet to 
check the partitions it finds because it may find the new ones too.

Shaun Laughey.