----- Original Message -----
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] root partition
> Sridhar G wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 12:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] root partition
> >
> But wait, after reading your text again, I see that you might simply
define
> your swap back in and rescue the other partition. It does not need to be
the
> same size, just the same minor number /dev/hda10.... It is even possible
to
> make another partition there as well as hda10 as long as it has a proper
minor
> number (picking up the sequence where it ended before you started.
>
Here is my argument for
fdisk /dev/hdx -l > hdxpart
You can use Linux fdisk to re-create a new partition table if the old one
gets trashed/deleted - works on DOS
partitions also.
Hoyt
