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Hi,
While trying to create a new partition on the free disk space with
fdisk I've lost all the extended partitions, I've now a partition table
with 6 missing extended partitions, so as soon as I reboot I'll lost
all the info about the old partition table, and before rebooting I'd
like to get the old info from memory and recreate the partitons (I
can't remember the starting points and the sizes of all the
partitions).
I've tried gpart but I can't recover the partitions.

Notes:
Debian (2.6.5)
Most of the lost partitions are XFS
HD Seagate 120 GB

Thx,
Guybrush

Guybrush wrote:
> Hi,
> While trying to create a new partition on the free disk space with
> fdisk I've lost all the extended partitions, I've now a partition table
> with 6 missing extended partitions, so as soon as I reboot I'll lost
> all the info about the old partition table, and before rebooting I'd
> like to get the old info from memory and recreate the partitons (I
> can't remember the starting points and the sizes of all the
> partitions).
> I've tried gpart but I can't recover the partitions.
>
> Notes:
> Debian (2.6.5)
> Most of the lost partitions are XFS
> HD Seagate 120 GB
>

Have a look at gpart - it may help
<http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/>.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

I already had tried with gpart, but it didn't work, it found the same
partitios i can see now in fdisk but non of the lost ones, but I'll try
to run it again and post the results.
Thanks.
Guybrush.

This is the output I get from gpart:

# gpart /dev/hda

Begin scan...
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(1896mb), offset(0mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(19067mb), offset(1906mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(19067mb), offset(20983mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(1896mb), offset(40060mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(28593mb), offset(41966mb)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(94mb), offset(70574mb)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(1906mb), offset(70668mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(9528mb), offset(103959mb)
Possible partition(Linux swap), size(972mb), offset(113498mb)

* Warning: short read near sector(234441459), 64512 bytes instead of
66048. Skipping...
End scan.

Checking partitions...

* Warning: more than 4 primary partitions: 9.
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): invalid primary
Ok.

Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 1896mb #s(3883200) s(63-3883262)
chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/15/63)d (0/1/1)-(3852/7/6)r

Primary partition(2)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 19067mb #s(39049600) s(3903795-42953394)
chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (3872/13/1)-(42612/7/58)r

Primary partition(3)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 19067mb #s(39049472) s(42973938-82023409)
chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (42632/14/1)-(81372/6/56)r

Primary partition(4)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 1896mb #s(3883200) s(82044018-85927217)
chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (81392/14/1)-(85245/4/6)r