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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: How to restore a partition table
From: John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:37:45 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-to: discussion@xxxxxxxxx

Seems to me you need to use the KISS method of disk partitioning and
keep a good hand written record in your system notebook.
John Phillips


On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, james l wrote:

> This has been a bad week (and more), now my big hard drive's partition table
> died. I found the Partition rescue howto, and don't have a sheet, and they
> are extended, so it recomends that you get partion magic. Any suggestions?
> 
> what it has
> 4 primary (#2 is an extended)
> 16 logical partitions 
> the partions range from 64MB to 10 GB, and have everything except my
> machine's root and boot partitions. 
> 
> Sugestions?
> I am going to get Partition Magic in a while if no one comes up with anything
> better.
> 
> 
>  James L
> 
> PS I think that what caused kmail's problems was the non-deletion of the
> .kde/apps/kmail/tmp files. If it happens again send me (not the list) an
> e-mail. my kmail.old script now rm -rf s the tmp dir.
> 
> Also wordperfect office works with rh7, if you go into the wpolauncher
> (wordperfect, and every other thing link to it) and delete lines 142 -174 or
> so (the section about fontastic)
> 
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