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/dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror


Hello Cygwin Gurus,

Before anyone starts flaming me, I'd like to say that the question I have
does not concern any particular app in cygwin but the whole  of cygwin (as
in literally) on our local mirror...(If this is better discussed in
cygwin-talk, please point it out.)

Here's the problem:

Our cygwin mirror is on a linux box running trustix secure linux version
2.0.  I decided to upgrade to trustix secure linux 2.2 and as I was about
to created a bootdisk for a network install, I inadvertently typed:

dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/hda

Then, as soon as I pressed enter, it was too late to realize that I
should've typed  /dev/fd0
instead of /dev/hda.

This server we have, thank goodness, has not crashed.  The size of
bootnet.img is just 1474560 bytes and I was relieved that it was just that
size.  I'm sure the partition table got messed up.

I'd like to know how I could rewrite back the partition table to the
correct values.  I've attached the output of  /proc/partitions since
pasting the text here results in a line wrap.

Here's the output of fdisk -l

# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   ?     37025     28907 2082274171+  e1  DOS access
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2   ?    205730    157209 1757737216    6  FAT16
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3   ?     92987     13629 1510045103+  b8  BSDI swap
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4   ?     87045    154994 545800106+  5e  Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

As you can see, the partition table is messed up.   However, I'm lucky to
have all the partitions mounted so the output of df makes much more sense:

# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              4200828   1495504   2705324  36% /
/dev/hda10             8499136   6305520   1761872  79% /home
/dev/hda5              4134900   3612280    312572  93% /var
/dev/hda7              8262036   7273616    568724  93% /var/ftp
/dev/hda6              4134900   2430408   1494444  62% /var/log
/dev/hda8              8262036   5231308   2611032  67% /var/www

I've noticed that the "blocks" fields displayed with  `cat
/proc/partitions' and `df' are
not the same.   (Which of the two is correct).

Could someone point out how to restore my partition table (or how to
restore the first 1.44 MB  that had been overwritten on /dev/hda).


Please save our cygwin mirror!

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Carlo

--
Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph

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