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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:47:32 -0600
From:	"Jeffrey V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>
To:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
CC:	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery

Al Boldi wrote:

>As always, a good friend of mine managed to scratch my partion table by 
>cat'ing /dev/full into /dev/sda.  I was able to push him out of the way, but 
>at least the first 100MB are gone.  I can probably live without the first 
>partion, but there are many partitions after that, which I hope should 
>easily be recoverable.
>
>I tried parted, but it's not working out for me.  Does anybody know of a 
>simple partition recovery tool, that would just scan the disk for lost 
>partions?
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Al
>
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One thing NetWare always did was to stamp a copy of the partition table 
at the time a partition was created as the second logical sector (offset 
1) from the start of a newly created partition. This allowed the disk to 
be scanned for the original (or last) partition table copy.

Jeff
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