Subj : Re: Re-building a partition table?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Bryan Batten
Date : Mon Dec 13 2004 10:32 am

Why do you think it's been reformatted? Is it mountable? What 
partition is /tmp/part.img on?

If what you've done is *exactly* what you say you've done, and /tmp is 
not mounted on that partition, you should still be OK (with a possibly 
  very large file in /tmp).

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