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To: Eduardo Viruena <eduardo_viruena@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: I damaged a disklabel
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In <20030402023710.89568.qmail@web40910.mail.yahoo.com>, Eduardo Viruena <eduardo_viruena@yahoo.com> typed:
> 
> I just blew the label of my disk.
> 
> I do not know how I did it but you know that 
> we can make amazing things without even be aware
> of what we are doing.
> 
> I have a paper on my desk where I write down 
> the sizes of my partitions.
> 
> Is there a way of fixing it?

If you have the starting sector for each partition as well, you can
fix it. You need to use disklabel to set those two numbers. See the
disklabel man page for details.

	<mike
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