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From: dougal@vespucci.iquest.com (Dougal Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Bad partition table. Fixable?
Date: 7 Jul 1996 23:40:35 GMT
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I've got a disk that suddenly has a bad partition table. Is there any
way to fix this without losing the data on the filesystem?

Please email responses where possible, though I'll certainly check here
for responses as well.

--
Dougal Campbell     | "Zathras is used to being beast of burden to
Systems Coordinator |  other people's needs.  Very sad life. 
interQuest: Hsv, AL |  Probably have very sad death.  But at least
dougal@iquest.com   |  there is symmetry."  -- Zathras, "War Without End"