Gpart
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gpart is a software utility which scans a hard disk drive, examining the data in order to detect partitions which may exist but be absent from the disk's partition tables.
gpart was written by Michail Brzitwa of Germany
Gpart tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type disk in case the primary partition 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 partitions, 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.
[edit] Partition types
Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types:
- BeOS filesystem type.
- FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning 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 partitions (versions 0 and 1).
- The Minix operating system filesystem type.
- MS Windows NT/2000 filesystem.
- QNX 4.x filesystem.
- The Reiser filesystem (version 3.5.X, X > 11).
- Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning 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.
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