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Re: Fixing my partiotion table
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Ami Fischman wrote:
> > > Is there any way to recreate th partiotion table if I knowe the original
> > > cylinders that were occupied by the old partition ?
> > As far as I understand, if that's the _only_ thing you did, running fdisk &
> > creating partitions of the same size, type and position as before should do the
> > trick. But before doing so, please wait - may be I'm wrong and other people will
> > correct me.
>
> DON'T DO IT!
>
> Running fdisk will kill the old partitions. You're gonna have to somehow
> manually re-write the partition table. Do you have any type of disk
nonono... they are perfectly right. the above is true for DOS partitions
and DOS' fdisk. MS fdisk also deletes the beginning of the partition when
it defines a DOS partition, GOK why. Linux is simply editing the
partition table, like it should.
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