From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:08:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A50AD6.6050806@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 5:13 [RFH] Partion table recovery Al Boldi
2007-07-20 5:20 ` Dave Young
2007-07-20 5:57 ` Dave Young
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 5:25 ` [RFH] Partion " James Lamanna
2007-07-20 7:00 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 11:53 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-07-20 5:35 ` [RFH] Partion " Willy Tarreau
2007-07-20 5:44 ` Dave Young
2007-07-20 7:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 11:39 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-20 12:22 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-20 12:29 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-20 16:06 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-21 17:54 ` Rene Herman
[not found] ` <20070722011141.GJ26752@thunk.org>
2007-07-22 4:10 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-22 16:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-22 19:05 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-22 21:23 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-07-23 8:15 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 8:41 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-23 10:54 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 12:39 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 13:15 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-07-23 13:32 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-23 20:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-23 13:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-24 4:08 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-22 9:11 ` Rene Herman
[not found] ` <20070722163934.GB20174@thunk.org>
[not found] ` <46A45A01.5050709@gmail.com>
2007-07-23 13:48 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-24 3:41 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-20 6:47 ` [RFH] Partion " Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-07-20 11:29 ` [RFH] Partition " Al Boldi
2007-07-20 7:35 ` [RFH] Partion " Anton Altaparmakov
2007-07-21 19:40 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-07-23 20:08 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-07-24 3:45 ` Rene Herman
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