Re: corruption of /usr with cfdisk

["Adam C. Siepel" <acs ncgr org>]

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, M. Neidorff wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 09/05/1999 -0600, you wrote:
> >I seem to have managed to corrupt my /usr partition with cfdisk, by
> >impetuously trying to maximize its space (without really understanding what
> >I was doing).
> 
> The big IF is that nothing...and I mean nothing...has been written to the
> disk since cfdisk did its thing and that you know the exact original
> partition table layout.  If so, use fdisk to recreate the exact original
> partition layout.  When you write your changes, your partitions will
> reappear. ONLY resizing a partition does not write out to the data area of
> a disk, so if cfdisk (does that stand for Completely Fried DISK???) follows
> those rules, you will be in good shape.  
> 

Nothing has been written, but I'm not sure of the exact original layout --
or even of which parameters are likely to be the most important.  Any way
of finding out now?  Any tips on what to look for?  Will looking at the
other partitions (which have not been touched) help?

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