Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery
From: Al Boldi
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 07:39:05 EST
James Lamanna wrote:
> On 7/19/07, Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
>
> Tried gpart?
> http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
This definitely looks like the ticket. And also rescuept from util-linux.
There is only one small problem; I have been regularly adding / deleting /
resizing partitions, which kind of confuses the scanner. But still, it's
better than nothing.
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> parted and its derivatives are pile of crap... They cause corruption
> to totally healthy systems at the best of times. Don't go near them.
>
> Use TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) and be happy.
> (-:
This one really worked best, without getting confused about older partitions.
Thanks everybody!
BTW, what's a partion table?
--
Al
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