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 Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/testdisk/ It can recover partition tables. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!