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	dchky	2010-11-02 , 10:50
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Does your N900 still boot? If yes, then it'd be pretty easy just to recreate the broken partition table, reboot, recover what's left, and then start over.

This is a dump from my N900, yours should be identical.

# sfdisk -d /dev/mmcblk0 > partitions
# cat partitions

Code:

# partition table of /dev/mmcblk0
unit: sectors

/dev/mmcblk0p1 : start=       64, size= 56631296, Id= c
/dev/mmcblk0p2 : start= 56631360, size=  4194304, Id=83
/dev/mmcblk0p3 : start= 60825664, size=  1572864, Id=82
/dev/mmcblk0p4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
table (END)

You could create a file on your N900 and paste the above text in, then run:

# sfdisk --no-reread /dev/mmcblk0 < filename

This should let you remount - though it might give some errors, you may need to run fsck - probably you will have to specify an alternate superblock.

Finally, you're not alone, I've done this, sadly more than once : )

Last edited by dchky; 2010-11-02 at 11:03.

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