>> I found block lengths etc of my partitions... I accidentally blew away
>> my partition table (fd0!=hda) and unfortunately I have no way to do a
>> backup and so have little. The system is still up and running. Is
>> there anyway I can recreate exactly the same partition table? I imagine
>> all the information is in /proc, but I can't find it. Any help would be
>> greatly appreciated. OBviously, especially with bad power quality here,
>> time is of the essense.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Trever
>>
> Several years ago, this happened to me.
> I don't know of a current entry in /proc now (several years ago, there
> wasn't one).
> The best advice is save the partition table someplace save...
> (I was able to backup across nfs to other machines, so it wasn't too bad)
> Marty Leisner
It seems like this would be a nice RT option for e2fsck.
e2fsck --backup-partition-table /dev/fd0
Garst
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