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DateFri, 20 Jul 2007 05:57:00 +0000
From"Dave Young" <>
SubjectRe: [RFH] Partion table recovery
On 7/20/07, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 7/20/07, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> 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
> /dev/null ?
withdraw my wrong comment.

> > 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?
> >
> The best way is to backup you partition table before destroyed.
>

And another method is use loop device with the offset option.

Regards
dave
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