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Message-ID: <46A05A84.6050305@wolfmountaingroup.com> 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 > >- >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/ > > > 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 - 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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