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    SubjectRe: [RFH] Partion table recovery
    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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