From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
To: ild0012@raven.londonmet.ac.uk
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: lost partition table
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:45:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143211512.6173.119.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060324135549.GB13979@raven.londonmet.ac.uk>
Hello
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:55 +0000, ild0012@raven.londonmet.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello folks.
>
> i am using slackware linux(2.6.14 with reiser4 patch) on x86_64 and was trying to install free_bsd on a separate partition.
> well, during that instalation , accedentualy i have pressed a wrong key , so my partition table is owerriten by something else , but i realized this streight away and stopped the instalation process .
>
> so in fac rigth now i ve got around 200GiB of data , all mushed up . there were 11 linux partitions without raid.
> many of thoes were reiserfs and reiser4.
>
> i have found on some linux distro's mailing list that the boot sector's backup made by the LILO should contain the table . i'm not 100% sure of that , but i believe it must do .
>
> so basicaly i have this backup file, but it exists somewhere in betweent all that mess on my drive .
>
> now the question is how to recover that file ?
>
> obviously i have tried gpart , wich was updated last time back in 1999 , so could find only my swap part'ion :)
>
You might want to try newer gpart
> i also read about magicrescue on this list's archive ..but the file i need seems to be binary and i'm still not sure dies it contain the table or just the LILO code .
>
> Can anybody help please , because i think that this 99.(9)% recoveriable !
> .
> thank you anyway.!
>
>
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2006-03-24 13:55 ` lost partition table ild0012
2006-03-24 14:45 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev [this message]
2006-03-24 15:05 ` Christian Iversen
2006-03-24 15:28 ` Andreas Schäfer
2006-03-24 15:59 ` Toby Thain
2006-03-26 11:07 ` Craig Shelley
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