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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:08:54 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....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?
>   
You have gotten a bunch of thoughts on this, I will just say that plain 
old "fdisk -l" saved somewhere safe is probably all you need, in human 
readable format. Doesn't do you any good now, but all the complicated 
schemes discussed don't thrill me, I want to be able to see this, and 
recovery by partition table manual rebuild is so rare I would rather do 
it by hand than trust some software I rarely use.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@....com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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