On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:35:45AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On 20 Jul 2007, at 06:13, 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? > > 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. > (-: Thanks for this link Anton, it looks awesome and I'll add it to my collection :-) I mostly use vche (virtual console hex editor) to look for strings, find offsets and/or fix data by hand. This should make me save some time ! Regards, Willy - 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
