From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dave Young" Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:57:00 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Al Boldi Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 7/20/07, Dave Young wrote: > >On 7/20/07, 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 > /dev/null ? withdraw my wrong comment. > > 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? > > > The best way is to backup you partition table before destroyed. > And another method is use loop device with the offset option. Regards dave