[wellylug] Fsck'd Partitions... help?

[Cliff Pratt]

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Cliff Pratt wrote:
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>> Hmm, it's probably not much help, but doesn't Linux keep multiple 
>> copies of the part tables?
>>
>> http://mvp.unixwiz.net/techtips/recovering-ext2.html
> 
> 
> I think you might be confusing partition tables with filesystem-specific 
> data structures. Partition tables are relatively easy to manually fix. 
> Filesystems can be a bit trickier but completely different. It depends 
> what was damaged and how badly...
> 
Quite possibly. I did pose it as a question! It seems a bit risky not to 
keep a copy somewhere else on disk though. There must be good reasons 
why it is not done. The whole of the first sector is not normally part 
of the filesystem, or it could form part of the partition header. Or am 
I missing something?

Cheers,

Cliff

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