lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2013]   [Oct]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: 3.12-rc5 and overwritten partition table - by powertop?
On Tue 29-10-13 22:58:40, John Twideldum wrote:
> >> 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)
Yes, likely. But it is strange the corruption doesn't even end at any
sensible boundary (data ends at offset 0x27b53). Shrug...

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

Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2013-10-29 23:41    [W:0.083 / U:0.176 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site