Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. In your other thread you mentioned you had no space for backing up a partition. Too bad I didn't have the idea earlier, but you could create a copy on write partiton, for example with network block devices (needs kernel support and

Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Persson
On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 11:14 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. Yes, I discovered gpart last night. It can be a useful tool for partition problems, although in this case it has turned out that testdisk was what I needed. gpart doesn't

[gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
In the aftermath of my recent disaster in which I accidentally reformatted my root partition I have been trying to install a new system. Unfortunately this has led to some more partitions being accidentally deleted and one of them had important data on it I need to recover. Unlike last time, this