Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:20:02 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: 3.12-rc5 and overwritten partition table - by powertop? |
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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
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