Recovering a broken partition table
Issue
- Accidentally deleted a partition on ext3/ext4 filesystem
- Parted rescue is unable to detect the filesystem
- Disk partition has been deleted and fdisk will not re-create it as before
# fdisk -lu /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes
67 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders, total 4194304 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfc9532cc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Environment
- Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6
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