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Re: Fixing my partiotion table
On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Ami Fischman wrote:
> > 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.
Doh! Don't I feel stupid. Sorry. I was thinking the guy was gonna use
DOS tools (and so MS fdisk) to fix the disk up. Sorry.
--Ami Fischman <a540ami@pic.ucla.edu||http://pslc.ucla.edu/~a540ami>
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