How to Recreate a Damaged GPT Partition Information from Another Identical Block Volume. (Doc ID 2752357.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

A GPT format disk / Block Volume has bad GPT information such as changed partition sizes or wrong partitions have been created.

Another disk / Block Volume with the correct GPT settings/partitions is available and is attached to the same system / instance.

The following process describes how to backup the good GPT settings from the similar block volume and use them to recover the damaged GPT configuration in the damaged block volume.

Solution

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How to Recreate a Damaged GPT Partition Information from Another Identical Block Volume. (Doc ID 2752357.1)

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