Vitorio Okio wrote: > > Unfortunately it did not worked. Here is the actual output of my try. > > At the first run fdisk reported "partitions out of order" after printing > the partition table. Then after applying 'x' and 'f' it reported that > partition order was successfully changed. > > In reality though it left the partition table untouched. And it starts > from sda2, etc. as before the "fix". The only difference is that fdisk > is now happy :-) and does not report "partitions are out of order" > anymore. >
Oops, I forgot to say actually that you will need to enter 'w' in fdisk (whilst in the main menu) to make it write the changes to disk. > I am aware of another way that I is described in "Linux Partition HOWTO" > as a partition table recovery after deleting partition (and this is > exactly my case) It also was advised me in another newsgroup. It is > much harder though, since it involves the deletion of each of the > existing partition and careful recreation of them using new ordering > numbers but same partition data (start, end, units, etc.) from the > existing partition table. > > I'll give it try tomorrow. > That sounds a bit dangerous - does that work by recovering the partition structure after the partition table is changed/wiped? Regards, Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
