CLI Magic: Salvage lost partitions with gpart

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 23, 2006 5:48 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Mayank Sharma
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Messing up your hard disk's partition table doesn't take much effort, especially when you're preparing a dual-boot machine. Even a mistimed fdisk /mbr can spell disaster, erasing the master boot record (MBR) and making the disk unusable. But victims of damaged MBRs rejoice -- gpart can save your day. This utility scans a hard disk and prepares a partition table of areas that resemble a partition, which you can use to make the disk bootable again.

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