Re: [SLE] Partition Table Erased, Machine still running

From: Paul Hewlett (hewlett_at_netactive.co.za)
Date: 03/30/05

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:22:12 +0200

    On Wednesday 30 March 2005 15:42, Dan Am wrote:
    > Hi Folks,
    >
    > I erased the partition table of a running machine. Shame on me. Machine is
    > still running though. There _must_ be a way to get theinformation from the
    > running kernel. As fdisk states: "The kernel still uses the old table"
    > I tried /proc/partitions, but can't seem to get the cylinders right.
    > At the moment I am copying 120GB data over ethernet, which is kind of
    > tedious.
    > Anyone ever recover from this ?
    >
    > Regards
    > Dan

    /proc/partitions
    /proc/diskstats

    may give u enough info to recreate the partition.

    use sfdisk to save the partition file in future in case u do this again :-)

    PaulH 

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