On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
:F>> The answer IMO is that NO. No, you will not see your /hda9 ever again. Once
:F>> deleted, it remains deleted. (Once again, correct me if I'm wrong.).
:
:Depends on how it was deleted. If fs remained intact, you can just create
:partition with same parameters, IMHO, and it will be back. I'm not sure it
:would be hda9, though... The numbers are sequential. To get more clear
:answer, please state, how it was before and what do you see now (fdisk
:partition structure, if possible).
/dev/hda9 is not a partitionn, but rather a logical vollume. Which will
get number 8, after original 8 is deleted. look for /dev/hda8 (in case the
only changes you did are those described. there is a chance that you will
find all files intact. This is a good idea to have a snapshots of your
partition tables (last ~70 bytes on every _partition_), or create a text
file using ' (date && echo p x | fdisk -u /dev/hdb )>> somefile`
(hdb is my case, and is subject to cahnge, of course).
About free spaccce between a partitions: logical volumes are assignnned
dynamically, and can have any size. but when it comes to partitions, there
are many sloppy fdisk variants (including Linux' fdisk, in this aspect),
which will not stop you from creating a partition between sector
boundaries, and this is a bad idea. Note, that if you will ever create a
partition with disklabel, you will_have_ to leave a free space before it
(usually 2 sectors, this is true for sunos5. on other systems size may
vary).
Omer Mussaev tel: 051308214 | finger for public key
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