[CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk
James Pearson
james-p at moving-picture.com
Wed Apr 27 11:10:21 UTC 2011
Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> I guess I must have run "mkdosfs /dev/sdb" at some point
> rather than "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1",
> as I usually try to install Windows on the first partition.
>
> This would have been about a year ago;
> It's surprising it's been running fine ever since.
> I hope there isn't a power outage in the next week,
> before I get home ...
>
> Is there a safe way of recovering the partition table?
> I have a vague idea that copies are kept at various places on the disk?
AFAIK, there is only one copy at the start of the disk - however what
does /proc/partitions contain?
This may well have the details of the partitions and sizes when the
machine was booted - it this is the case, take a copy of this info -
which you can then use to manually re-create the partition table using fdisk
James Pearson
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