On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:36:41 -0500, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mellertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 09/24/2012 07:39 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>> I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I >>> decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. >> >> This should be posted to the Fedora test list, not here. F18 is not a >> released system. >> >> poc >> >One program I did not see talked about is testdisk. It is designed >to find deleted partitions. I have not needed to use it for real, >but I have deliberately messed up a partition table to see how well >it works. It does a great job on drives that have only been >partitioned and formatted once. If you have had different >partitioning sachems, you may have to pick out the correct >partitions from a list of partitions it finds. But it usually isn't >too hard. Well I didn't mention it because I said: > anaconda [...] removes magic numbers from partitions superblocks [...] and > none of automatic "lost partition detection" tool could find them. I tried testdisk with a few different settings, none of them worked. Only partition it was kind of able to detect was the first on (/boot) and even there it messed up starting point (2046 instead of 2048 sector). But yes, nevertheless, if someone "just" wipes out his MBR testdisk would be very useful I agree. -- Kuba -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
