Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

Robert Nichols wrote:

Actually, if it were my drive I would just re-create the 4 primary partitions using whatever tool was handy, but giving that extended partition a "normal" type instead. Once I had the primary partitions looking right, then I'd go in with a hex editor and change the type code to "5" for that partition. Listing the partition table again with fdisk should now show that everything is back. (It's very unlikely that any of those secondary partition tables got overwritten when you essentially turned the whole disk into one giant DOS file system.)

Thanks. I think I'd better wait until I have acquired a large external drive, and backed up everything!

But re your method, couldn't I just use fdisk to change the type of sdb4?