On Tuesday 15 August 2006 22:37, jai kumar wrote: > But I have no clue for how to get back my gentoo partition. Is there any > way to rescue that parition?
You could try googling for partition recovery tools. Some of them will let you recover files from a lost partition and save them somewhere else; then you can re-create the partition and copy the files back in. On a more general point, I used to swear by PartitionMagic; nowadays I swear at it. It suffers from the usual Windows philosophy that users are not to be trusted to know anything, and that it knows best what to do. So if, for instance, I copy a partition to a spare disk as backup, and later copy it back to its original place, PM goes and finds all the partitions with an /etc/fstab and changes all the partition numbers it finds there. Naturally, the system then won't boot until I find the damage and fix it. Recently I found a nifty little 60GB USB disk; I use tar to back my partitions up to that now. Slow, but it feels safe and reliable, which PM has ceased doing. -- Rgds Peter -- [email protected] mailing list
