From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759227AbXGTF0H (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751457AbXGTFZw (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:25:52 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:52127 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751130AbXGTFZu (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:25:50 -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=Vm+hACeZuPMJq8hjR6GatPZnMfPSIEGxADXCUMN8lRzdMVm47SJ+tKTE37QuGZuPLogm5Pg5XrDRz2nij3GFMkOG5a2t6vJw1O95GbWyFa+yB8uRFzFm2lbeFQaU3E1OeP4Aocxs09ejbZOQA9Ibfcnt92GQj0CIJiMFC/TE+z8= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:25:49 -0700 From: "James Lamanna" 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 7/19/07, 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 > 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? Tried gpart? http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ > > > Thanks! > > -- > Al -- James