From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759961AbXGXDrS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:47:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755264AbXGXDrD (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:47:03 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:36874 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754875AbXGXDrB (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:47:01 -0400 Message-ID: <46A575C8.80208@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:45:12 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: Al Boldi , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery References: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> <46A50AD6.6050806@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <46A50AD6.6050806@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.