[lug] windows reformatting linux disks?

[rise]

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On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, D. Stimits wrote:

> I would guess you still have an fstab entry to mount that drive in the
> format it was in before ME decided it was smarter than you and "fixed"
> it. Boot up the system without that drive, even if it is from a rescue
> disk, and edit /etc/fstab to remove the attempt to mount that disk's
> partitions. Then you can work on it. What you might want to do is make
> the first partition on the disk suitable for win, perhaps even doing the
> partitioning from win...throw it a bone to chew on. Then use the rest
> under linux, perhaps it'll leave the rest alone.

I've actually had good luck with using fdisk to repartition a drive
exactly the way it was before something (usually Windows) toasted the
table.  If you remember the layout you might want to try this just in
case that was the only thing that got fried.  Obviously creating the
filesystems on the recreated partitions will wreck the chances of this
working.  If the disk repartitions but e2fsck -n blows up you might
want to use -b to specify one of the backup superblocks.


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Jonathan Conway						      rise at knavery.net
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