[mythtv-users] OT: lost partition table

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Stillwell" <bigboi at wackywombats.com>

> Pardon the interruption for a quick question that isn't directly about
> Mythtv. Last week I had a disk failure on my Mythtv system. After some
> investigation, it seems that the partition table is corrupted or
> missing for some reason (I can see the data on the disk using a hex
> dump tool). I plan to use dd to copy the disk to another brand new
> drive (of the exact same size) and then use something like
> 'xfs_repair' (it's an XFS partition) to try to repair the drive. Has
> anyone had any success at something like this? If so, what did you do?
> Any tips/tricks?

Another tool good for rebuilding partition tables is gpart; GNU parted
will do it as well.  Was it One Big Partition, taking up the entire drive?

Cause that's easier.

Cheers,
-- jra
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