From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262442AbVAEOSj (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:18:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262444AbVAEOSj (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:18:39 -0500 Received: from 212-28-208-94.customer.telia.com ([212.28.208.94]:54802 "EHLO www.dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262442AbVAEOSf (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:18:35 -0500 From: Robin Rosenberg To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: data rescue Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:18:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <00e801c4f32e$bde1e600$7861a8c0@pcp40702> In-Reply-To: <00e801c4f32e$bde1e600$7861a8c0@pcp40702> Cc: sujeet.kumar@patni.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501051518.29918.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org onsdagen den 5 januari 2005 14.59 skrev Sujeet Kumar: > I ran > blockdev -v --rereadpt .... > on my harddisk . > It gave re-read partition succeded. Then after rebooting the machine it > shows no partitions. > > I tried running linux-rescue from bootable disk and it shows no valid > partition table. > How do i rescue my data . gpart can recover partition tables. I used it to recover a failed disk where the extended partitions were screwed due to a disk failure. Every attempt to restore the tables on disk failed. The partion table grew stranger each time, but I could recover data from a disk image. > Tell me what rereadpt basically does no idea other than the man page....,sorry. -- robin