From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: lost partition table Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:45:12 +0300 Message-ID: <1143211512.6173.119.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> References: <1142439481.27675.ezmlm@namesys.com> <20060324135549.GB13979@raven.londonmet.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20060324135549.GB13979@raven.londonmet.ac.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ild0012@raven.londonmet.ac.uk Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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.! > >