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Guess PC Disk Partition Table with gpart


Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical. It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk device. Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types:

  • BeOS filesystem type.
  • FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning scheme used on Intel platforms.
  • Linux second extended filesystem.
  • MS-DOS FAT12/16/32 “filesystems”.
  • IBM OS/2 High Performance filesystem.
  • Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen).
  • Linux swap partitions (versions 0 and 1).
  • The Minix operating system filesystem type.
  • MS Windows NT/2000 filesystem.
  • QNX 4.x filesystem.
  • The Reiser filesystem (version 3.5.X, X > 11).
  • Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels.
  • Silicon Graphics’ journalling filesystem for Linux.

To run a full scan of your file system: gpart -v -f <file system>

 

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