Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:08:54 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery |
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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@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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