Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Dave Smith <Dave.Smith@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:35:35PM +0200, php@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hmm. Dave,
> or anyone,
> Let's say for fun's sake that it's a corrupt partition table. What would I 
> do to rectify the situation?

You have a very perverted definition of 'fun'... :-)

As for how to rectify the situation... Not sure really.  Hopefully other
people might have an idea.  Try running 'fdisk' on the drive (/dev/hda),
then trying to print the partition table ('p').

It might also be worth running a full fsck if you're willing to risk
shutting the machine down.  I'm not sure whether you can do this from
the SuSE rescue disk; you might have to either play around with booting
your machine in single-user mode and mounting the root FS read-only, or
you could download a copy of something like tomsrtbt and boot and fsck
from that.

> And I made the backup, thanks!

Of course, I could be talking total rubbish, and it could be something
totally benign, but better to have a backup that's never needed than
not to have a backup that you *do* need... :-)

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