[SOLVED] Oops. Deleted partition table and cannot remember.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:41 am
I had a disk with a 10.0GB Fat32 partition and a 70GB ext2 partition. Well, technically a fat32 partition and a linux partition with ext2 formatted on it.
Anyway, I fired up GNU parted and stupidly overwrote the partition table only having the values:
Now I cannot put the partition table back. I can get the fat32 one back again using "mkpart 0 10.7GB" where it detects the rest but using "mkpart 10.7GB 100%" or "mkpart 10.7GB 80.0GB" it will not find my ext2 filesystem and e2fsck cannot scan it neither.
I've tried the "rescue" option in parted but it's not finding it. I had so much stuff on that partition and haven't touch the filesystem so I know it's still there but does anybody have any hints as to how to rescue or determine *actual* the start and end sectors of the filesystems?

Anyway, I fired up GNU parted and stupidly overwrote the partition table only having the values:
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root@pc-cac:/media/usbdisk/Albums# parted /dev/sdc
GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/sdc
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 10.7GB 10.7GB primary fat32 lba
2 10.7GB 80.0GB 69.3GB primary ext2 bootI've tried the "rescue" option in parted but it's not finding it. I had so much stuff on that partition and haven't touch the filesystem so I know it's still there but does anybody have any hints as to how to rescue or determine *actual* the start and end sectors of the filesystems?