Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:44:10 +0000 | From | "Dave Young" <> | Subject | Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery |
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>On 7/20/07, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:13:03AM +0300, 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? > > The best one is simply "fdisk", because you can manually enter your > cylinders numbers. You have to find by hand the beginning of each partition, > and for this, you have to remember what filesystems you used and see how to > identify them (using a magic). Then with an hex editor, you scan the disk to > find such entries and note the possible sectors on a paper. Then comes fdisk. > You create the part, exit and try to mount it. If it fails, fdisk again and > try other values. One more possible solution about this, you can find the filesystem magic position, if ext2/ext3 , /dev/sda can be mounted with option sb=blocknumber > > I've saved many disks that way, it may sound harder than it really is. It > should not take you more than half an hour to get the first part. Knowing > your approximate partitions size will help too. > > Good luck! > Willy - 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/
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