Re: Bind8 exploit and a deleted partition map

[Jose Nazario <jose () BIOCSERVER BIOC CWRU EDU>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:

> If you want to make sure that a partition table does exist before
> rebooting a machine, do a fdisk -l. If no partition table is found,
> reconstruct it with the information contained in /proc/partitions and
> dmesg. (Alas, that information may not be sufficient and /proc file
> and fdisk are linux specific, I don't know if they work that way in
> other OS.)

i have done that in the past, basically using fdisk to recreate a
partition table. unless you remake the filesystems, you're set. the table
is just that, a small table that simply tells where and how to access the
disk for a 'partition'. worked like a champ on C:\, but due to some off
step partitions D:\ was irrecoverable. (this was Win95, btw.)

should work for ext2 filesystems (in Linux). should also work for SCSI
disks. the trick is getting the exact correct data about the partition
table, including cylinders and such.

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