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SubjectRe: [RFH] Partion table recovery
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
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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
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