linux-ext4 - Re: Ext4 newbie trying to recover its partition table

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Message-ID: <20111127192939.GL5167@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:29:39 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lucas Teixeira <lucas@...asteixeira.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 newbie trying to recover its partition table

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 02:06:44PM -0200, Lucas Teixeira wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For more than a year I've been trying to recover data from a harddisk
> of mine. I have really important personal files there, and I would
> like to recover it myself, as I don't know of any recovering service
> that I would trust to analyze ext4 partitions.
> 
> I don't know if anyone here even has the time to read my diagnosis
> (pasted below).
> 
> **I would like good resources and tips to learn ext4 structure and
> dive into e2fsprogs source code, in order to recover the files in my
> misteriously lost partitions.**

Have you tried using the program "gpart"?  It's the go-to program for
recovering damaged partition tables in my book.

						- Ted
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