From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757468AbXGTFU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:20:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751384AbXGTFUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:20:16 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]:62089 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750986AbXGTFUO (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:20:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Qk2zG+UydHU/GDQ4R/bA+a3TmycGjloTSUFfnqTf1+KN2fTeLT9HL6GDBiqxTzAjLisjyGjKUB7hq/QXgqTYPeSnwbvDTsRj/MzwgeHlLay2YDIdAlYQeLmQf5v9s/An6cTSylSvi19bD4NAWIwd6TyVY2VyZytGuvHhpPObwYA= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:20:12 +0000 From: "Dave Young" To: "Al Boldi" Subject: Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200707200813.03553.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >On 7/20/07, 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 /dev/null ? > 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? > The best way is to backup you partition table before destroyed.