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