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