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Message-ID: <46A50AD6.6050806@tmr.com>
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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