In a daily load strategy, you would have a partition per day, but you are allowed up to 1000 partitions on a table so you have almost 3 years to work out an archive strategy. (Just kidding;-). Of ...

The partition table is independent of the ext3 filesystem, but yes it would probably repair the partition table. That said, it's rather unusual for the partition table to go and everything else to ...

The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 exabytes compared to 2.2TB for the MBR.

One of my dual boot Win 9x/GNU/Linux boxes has some sort of issue with the partition table, so that occasionally it renders one of my OS partitions unbootable. This time it's Windows.

Check partition table health in Lion's Disk Utility Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well.

What actually happens is that it interprets the GPT partition table incorrectly, and that causes it to get confused about what is where on the disk. In my case with LMDE, what it did was write the ...

Partition Wipers specifically target the system's partition table, so the disk layout cannot be recovered, complicating the data restoration efforts and maximizing the damage done.