Well , the answer to my problem was quite easy . After a tip from Dimitris Zilaskos from this very mailing list i just added an entry to the partition table and the problem was solved . On Sunday 22 September 2002 14:42, Gregor Zattler wrote: > Hi Kostas, > > * Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf@cha.forthnet.gr> [22. Sep. 2002]: > > I am writting this message because i managed to loose an ext3 partition > > by responding to a Norton Antivirus Alert . > > gpart is a cool tool which *g*esses partition infos. > > From README: > > Gpart is a small tool which tries to guess what partitions > are on a PC type harddisk in case the primary partition table > was damaged. > > Gpart works by scanning through the device (or file) given on > the command line on a sector basis. Each guessing module is > asked if it thinks a file system it knows about could start at > a given sector. Several file system guessing modules are built > in, others can be added dynamically. > > > Source: > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz > > Statically linked Linux binary (265364 Bytes): > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/gpart.linux > > Ciao, Gregor -- Kostas Sfakiotakis UIN : 130206000 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users