Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 May 1999 09:27:35 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Searching for filesystem locator |
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As far as I now know, there are four utilities that attempt to assist in recovering a lost partition table, or a partition that was deleted by mistake.
(i) findsuper is a small utility that finds blocks with the ext2 superblock signature, and prints out location and some info. It is in the non-installed part of the e2progs distribution.
(ii) rescuept is a utility that recognizes ext2 superblocks, FAT partitions, swap partitions, and extended partition tables; it prints out information that can be used with fdisk or sfdisk to reconstruct the partition table. It is in the non-installed part of the util-linux distribution.
(iii) fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html) is a utility that handles ext2, FAT, NTFS, ufs, BSD disklabels (but not yet old Linux swap partitions); it actually will rewrite the partition table, if you give it permission.
(iv) gpart (http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/) is a utility that handles ext2, FAT, Linux swap, HPFS, NTFS, FreeBSD and Solaris/x86 disklabels, minix, reiser fs; it prints a proposed contents for the primary partition table, and is well-documented.
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