Thanks that could be useful. I will give it a spin. Gparted is indeed one of those tools who's absence can be problematic. Some of the install media include it and some don't.

I tried looking to see if there was some kind of stand alone binary gparted I could keep on hand, like a windows portable exe file. Nothing that I found. Maybe you'd need to use one of those formats like appimage?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, at 11:28 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:

There are a variety of repair distributions out there. Seems one good one at least from memory is: https://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/. I've not tried it but seems
to maybe be what you require.