mklabel == nuketable, rescue seg faults [Re: Partition table gone]

[Shane]

Andrew Clausen <clausen <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:50:32AM -0800, Paul Kennedy wrote:
> > I recently tried to label a partition using parted and
> > recieved an error...this was a few days ago so I can't
> > really remember the error message. Anyway when I
> > rebooted my system it appears that my partition table
> > has been deleted.
> 
> You mean you typed "mklabel"?  Yes, that's what this command
> does.  Perhaps it should be called "mktable".
> 
> > I am stuck at the grub> prompt and
> > am not sure what to do from here. Any sugguestion
> > would be greatly apreiciated. I am a newbie with linux
> > but I catch on quickly....Thanks
> 
> I would download some boot disks (eg: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk),
> and either use gpart, or parted's rescue command.

If only that would work.  This same thing happened to me.  It's incredibly
unclear that mklabel does (the main line is that it "creates a new disk label").
 There should be a warning on that.

Anyway, parted rescue command apparently just doesn't exist or something.  Every
time I try it, I get a segmentation fault.

e.g.
"parted"
"rescue <cr>"
"0"
segmentation fault
#

This is on an x86_64 system, running parted 1.6.25 on an FC5 rescue disk.  
Ideas?