Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: > 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? > > One thing NetWare always did was to stamp a copy of the partition table > at the time a partition was created as the second logical sector (offset > 1) from the start of a newly created partition. This allowed the disk to > be scanned for the original (or last) partition table copy.
This is really a good idea, as this would save you the trouble of reconstructing the table due to older overlapping entries. Can linux do something like that? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
