Comment 3 for bug 434463

I haven't rebooted yet. I wanted to try and recover things first.

fdisk does show a partial partition table though--the original entries for sda1 and sda5 are there, but sda6 is missing and it prints "omitting empty partition (6)" when it starts. Perhaps that mean that the partition table is actually still there? Or perhaps fdisk just uses the OS's cache of the partition table or something?

In any event, I was thinking of writing the table back out to disk from fdisk and then using GParted to reconstruct the entry for /dev/sda6 from the sizes and offsets in the htm output.