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

Bryn M. Reeves breeves at redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 11:43:02 UTC 2008


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Andrea wrote:
> 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?

You can also try parted's rescue command. This takes two parameters: a
start and an end location and will probe the blocks in between looking
for file system data.

Regards,
Bryn.

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