[parted-devel] Help: How to find lost partition

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea <mariofutire at googlemail.com>
To: parted-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:05:08 +0100
Subject: [parted-devel] Help: How to find lost partition

> Hi,
> 
> I've done a cockup!
> Damaged the partition table!
> 
> The hard disk has 3 partitions.
> The problem is that I don't know any more where the 3rd starts! So now the 2nd covers the disk
> till 
> the end.
> 
> I can still mount the 2nd: it is an ext3 and it is 3.8GB according to df.
> The 3rd is a FAT32.
> 
> Is there a way to find where the partition starts?
> My best plan is to scan /dev/sdb till I find something like the beginning of a FAT32 partition.
> I've got an other FAT32 and it contains the bytes "FAT32" somewhere at the beginning.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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