Can't Find Parbreastion Table On Boot

John writes:

It isn't (it isn't part of the OS).

I think you want gpart:

toncho-~ 1 apt-cache show gpart Package: gpart Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 68 plus 1 Architecture: i386 Version: 0.1h-4 Filename: pool-main-g-gpart-gpart0.1h-4i386.deb Size: 36722 MD5sum: 3810d6648266ef3b58e97b99e9b89dd8 Description: Guess PC disk parbreastion table, find lost parbreastions Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary parbreastion table of a PC-type disk in case the primary parbreastion table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. . It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and sizes of inadvertently-deleted parbreastions, both primary and logical. It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). . The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk device. . Supported (guessable) filesystem or parbreastion types: . * BeOS filesystem type. * FreeBSD-NetBSD-386BSD disklabel sub-parbreastioning scheme used on Intel platforms. * Linux second extended filesystem. * MS-DOS FAT12-16-32 "filesystems". * IBM OS-2 High Performance filesystem. * Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen). * Linux swap parbreastions (versions 0 and 1). * The Minix operating system filesystem type. * MS Windows NT-2000 filesystem. * QNX 4.x filesystem. * Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-parbreastioning scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels. * Silicon Graphics' journalling filesystem for Linux. . Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules.

-- John Hasler Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA