Re: mklabel wiped my partition table (hint: mklabel is not MSDOS label)

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:31:28AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> I somehow managed to run mklabel, confusing it with MSDOS label. Now my
> partition table is gone. I haven't rebooted yet and my system is still
> running, so perhaps not all is lost. You can find more details about my
> misfortune here:
> http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=96509133&m=743006888631
> 
> There are at least two previous similar cases reported on this list and
> quite a few others on the web. This command really has to be renamed and
> its description should be rephrased. 
> 
> mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)
> should be:
> mktable LABEL-TYPE            create a new partition table
> 
> It would also be nice to offer a way to undo this command afterwards
> (i.e. to restore the active/booted partition table from backup). This
> brings us back to my case. Which of the following partition rescue
> tools/methods would you recommend?
> 
> TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
> Gpart - http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
> Restoring /boot/boot.0300 -
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1355494#post1355494
> 
> Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for helping me out of this
> mess,

If you had the exact data of your previous partition table, you could easily
recreate one and fix it. And i believe that an undo command would be nice, or
simpler yet a save/restore partition table support in parted.

Maybe you can get info on your old partition table from /proc/partitions ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther