This isn't strictly raid related, but after lurking I've noticed the folks here know a LOT about partition stuff in general, so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this: Say I had a disk with a handful of ext3 partitions on it, ala RedHat 7.3 - eg. /, /boot, /usr, /var and so forth. I accidentally scrubbed all those partitions, created one large ext3 partition that filled the disk, began copying, then realised my mistake and needed information that would have been about three quarters the way thru the disk (on the last partition, thankfully). At this stage I had not copied anywhere near enough data, if it were written sequentially, to go that far through the disk. Is it too late to recover files from that last partition? Does ext3 copy sequentially? I've noticed that backup superblocks will be written through a partition as well. Will that complicate things if they were written into the partition I'm trying to recover? So far the best chance is a program called "parted". But I've come into some usability problems with that - it won't seem to reconstruct the partition table to the point where anything's mountable. I also fear if it were mountable, the process of recovering it to the point of being usable might destroy it. Anyone got any experience doing this stuff? Luke. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
