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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
