From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760677AbXGTFbP (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:31:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751293AbXGTFa6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:30:58 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.192.84]:52494 "EHLO rwcrmhc14.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbXGTFa5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:30:57 -0400 Message-ID: <46A05A84.6050305@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:47:32 -0600 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Boldi CC: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery References: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > > >Thanks! > >-- >Al > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > One thing NetWare always did was to stamp a copy of the partition table at the time a partition was created as the second logical sector (offset 1) from the start of a newly created partition. This allowed the disk to be scanned for the original (or last) partition table copy. Jeff