[Clonezilla-live] How to recover partition table w/out restoring rest of disk?

[Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...>]

Months back I used Clonezilla-live (1.2.2.something) to do a full image
backup of an internal hard drive to an external USB hard drive. The internal
disk was Linux-only and had a separate boot partition w/ MBR. File systems were
all either ext2 (boot partition) or ext3 or swap. Running OpenSUSE 11.0 if that
matters.

Weeks ago, my son power-cycled the PC and it seems to have caused the the
partition table to have been completely wiped and unfortunately, I don't have
a hard copy of it anywhere. Am unable to check the file systems via fsck
but have been able to successfully mount of few of the file systems (read-only
just in case) and the data itself seems to be intact.

Since it's been months since my latest backup (my bad; I figured I could
get away w/ it since it's only used by my son playing BZFlag and developing
BZFlag maps), I'd prefer not to simply restore the disk image, but rather
would like to use the Clonezilla-live saved image from my USB drive to
ONLY RESTORE THE PARTITION TABLE, but NOT any of the partitions.

Any pointers (URLs are fine if you point to the right section) of how to
do this? I read something about a '-j0' option to restore partition table,
but it says not to use if I have logical drives and I don't recall if
this OpenSUSE was installed / configured using LVM or not. (It's was an
upgrade from OpenSUSE 10.1 which was build using a custom partitioning
scheme.) Is there a way to tell if it was using LVM and logical partitions?
And if it was, what then?

I could just restore the whole drive and my son will be SOL wrt his
BZFlag maps. My only "punishment" would be to have to do all the
OpenSUSE updates again and put up with my son castigating me for
not doing more regular backups. (Something I told HIM to do which
is why I gave him a USB thumb drive.)

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
TIA,
-kevin
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Kevin W. Wall
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