Morgan Read wrote:
Hi Folks
This post could equally be titled - is there a God?
Yesterday I ran this command:
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# dd if=/dev/sda of=pocketpc.rescue
bs=1M count=33
(No output, just bash history.)
Today I ran these commands:
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# dd if=/dev/sda of=2ndstage.rescue
bs=1K count=1280
1280+0 records in
1280+0 records out
1310720 bytes (1.3 MB) copied, 0.0535238 s, 24.5 MB/s
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# chown morgan: ./2ndstage.rescue
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# dd if=zImage-LAB-20060421.htc
of=/dev/sda
2348+0 records in
2348+0 records out
1202176 bytes (1.2 MB) copied, 0.117155 s, 10.3 MB/s
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]#
Both yesterday and today I should not have used /dev/sda, but should
have used /dev/sdc... Ouch...
Now I seem to have an unallocated partition of some 37.26GB where once
existed my carefully constructed laptop hard drive.
Everything seems to be running fine, but I expect if I reboot - I wont!
I guess I've just wiped out my MBR or something close.
So, fingers firmly crossed, have I managed to copy enough of my hard
drive with the first two commands to be able to patch back the
catastrophic damage I seem to have done with the last command. Could
someone more confident than I give me some instruction:)
Any help desperately welcome.
Since you made a backup, probably no problem:
dd if=./2ndstage.rescue of=/dev/sda count=2348
restore what you overwrote from what you saved.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
