linux-kernel - Re: 3.12-rc5 and overwritten partition table

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Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:58:40 +0100 (CET)
From:	"John Twideldum" <twideldums_throwaway@....at>
To:	"Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.12-rc5 and overwritten partition table - by powertop?

>> The first ~170kb of /dev/sda got blown away with what seems to be a logging output
>> by Powertop, when I was playing with the tuneables.
>
>So did you log the output to some file? I'm just trying to understand how
>it could get onto your disk in the first place...

Attached a dump of the first 1Mb of the disk, HTH.
It looks like a powertop log?
(I have powertop 2.4)

meanwhile, testdisk running in all variations recovered enough clues to
guess the partitions correctly - the data is fine :-)

J

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