Re: Curious fdisk report on large disk

[Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Pearson wrote:

>> Is there a safe way of recovering the partition table?
>> I have a vague idea that copies are kept at various places on the disk?
> 
> AFAIK, there is only one copy at the start of the disk - however what
> does /proc/partitions contain?
> 
> This may well have the details of the partitions and sizes when the
> machine was booted - it this is the case, take a copy of this info -
> which you can then use to manually re-create the partition table using
> fdisk

Thanks very much for that;
/proc/partitions does indeed seem to contain correct information,
so all will not be lost if there is a power outage tomorrow:
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[tim@helen ~]$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   78125000 sda
   8     1   30716248 sda1
   8     2     104422 sda2
   8     3    3911827 sda3
   8     4          1 sda4
   8     5   29302528 sda5
   8     6   14088973 sda6
   8    16 1465138584 sdb
   8    17   61440561 sdb1
   8    18    9775552 sdb2
   8    19    9775552 sdb3
   8    20          1 sdb4
   8    21   97667136 sdb5
   8    22   97667136 sdb6
   8    23  244147806 sdb7
   8    24  146488671 sdb8
   8    25   97667136 sdb9
   8    26   97667136 sdb10
   8    27   97667136 sdb11
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