[CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Apr 27 12:26:26 UTC 2011
James Pearson wrote:
>> 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
Thanks very much for that;
/proc/partitions does indeed seem to contain correct information,
so all will not be lost if there is a power outage tomorrow:
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[tim at helen ~]$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 78125000 sda
8 1 30716248 sda1
8 2 104422 sda2
8 3 3911827 sda3
8 4 1 sda4
8 5 29302528 sda5
8 6 14088973 sda6
8 16 1465138584 sdb
8 17 61440561 sdb1
8 18 9775552 sdb2
8 19 9775552 sdb3
8 20 1 sdb4
8 21 97667136 sdb5
8 22 97667136 sdb6
8 23 244147806 sdb7
8 24 146488671 sdb8
8 25 97667136 sdb9
8 26 97667136 sdb10
8 27 97667136 sdb11
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