Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 13:05:58 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> |
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:08:55AM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > <snip> > > > They may be a way to test and create drive profiles that are stored and > > reloaded to the kernel that will add the missing supercharge on Andrea's > > elevator. Basically creating a physical LBA sector profile. > > > > Trust that this will be painful to create because this is the secret of > > the industry and I can not get access to it for Linux, even under > > full-disclosure NDA's. > > Is this the kind of information required to build an application > like Partition Magic? It sure would be nice to have a native > version of Partition Magic or an Open Source work-alike. > Is anyone aware of a project to implement such an Open Source > alternative?
You mean like gpart?
laotzu:~# dpkg -s gpart Package: gpart Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 66 Maintainer: David L. Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org> Version: 0.1f-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. . It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical. It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). . The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk device. . Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: . DOS/Windows FAT (FAT 12/16/32) Linux ext2 Linux swap partitions versions 0 and 1 (Linux >= v2.2.X) OS/2 HPFS Windows NTFS *BSD disklabels Solaris/x86 disklabels Minix FS Reiser FS LVM physical volumes . Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules.
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