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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:45:12 +0200 From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> CC: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery On 07/23/2007 10:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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. ACK. Or NNAK (Non-NAK) at least... Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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