Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery

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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?
You have gotten a bunch of thoughts on this, I will just say that plain old "fdisk -l" saved somewhere safe is probably all you need, in human readable format. Doesn't do you any good now, but all the complicated schemes discussed don't thrill me, I want to be able to see this, and recovery by partition table manual rebuild is so rare I would rather do it by hand than trust some software I rarely use.

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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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