From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:45:12 +0200 Message-ID: <46A575C8.80208@gmail.com> References: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> <46A50AD6.6050806@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46A50AD6.6050806@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Al Boldi , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 07/23/2007 10:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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. ACK. Or NNAK (Non-NAK) at least... Rene.