On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 09:27:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually, there are two such tools.
>
> (i) fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html)
> (ii) gpart (http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/)
Ha, Ted, you quote my text, but remove the rescuept part. Why?
Have you decided the other two are better? In that case I disagree.
I have lots of reports where people could not achieve anything
with fixdisktable and had success with rescuept.
Maybe fixdisktable is buggy on large disks.
I think that if you quote only two out of the four then
it should be rescuept and gpart.
I removed rescuept and findsuper because they are both manual tools, and
in my experience a lot of the people asking for help don't have the
expertise to use the manual tools.
The output of rescuept is in a format sfdisk handles as input.
So
# rescuept device > file
# sfdisk device < file
will do things fully automatically, no expertise required.
(Of course, a wise man would examine file first to see whether
the contents look reasonable, and give sfdisk options to save
the old situation so that this action can be undone.)
If there are cases where rescuept will recover information that gpart or
fixdisktable will not, then I should probably update my stock answer
file to include it.
Yes.
Andries
