This has saved me in the past: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ Worth its weight in gold... Phil On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:16 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Over on the Debian lists is a guy who clobbered his partitions > last night, late. I spent a few hours poring over his information > trying to get things back for him, but couldn't. I used to be > quite expert on how MSDOS uses partitions, but I'm not much on > how Linux does it. I gave him just about my best effort, but > AFAICT he's stuck. I can't see where anything bad should have > happened, but it did. He can't mount /home any more, he's on > the road away from his backups, and he needs his laptop today > to do some work. > > Can anyone here help? If you can, please respond both to > me and to onemorenut@xxxxxxxxx and keep me in the loop. > > Thanks so much... > > Mike > -- > p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} > This message made from 100% recycled bits. > You have found the bank of Larn. > I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. > I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! >