>> The first ~170kb of /dev/sda got blown away with what seems to be a logging >> output >> by Powertop, when I was playing with the tuneables. > >So did you log the output to some file? I'm just trying to understand how >it could get onto your disk in the first place...
Attached a dump of the first 1Mb of the disk, HTH. It looks like a powertop log? (I have powertop 2.4) meanwhile, testdisk running in all variations recovered enough clues to guess the partitions correctly - the data is fine :-) J
backup_overwrite.dump.bz2
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