On 28/11/07 18:38, Michael Hannon wrote:
Hi, folks. I managed to shoot myself in the foot yesterday during a
kickstart installation. I was installing to a PATA drive on a system
with a second, SCSI drive. I was using the SCSI drive to store the
files I wanted to preserve. Unfortunately, I had a "clearpart --linux"
command in the kickstart file. (For reasons I won't describe I was
"borrowing" a kickstart file that we had used successfully on systems
with only a single disk drive.)
I suspect that all of the files I need are still present on the disk, as
there has been no use of the disk since the clearpart operation. I'm
looking for some partition-recovery software that will restore the
previous partitions.
I've seen a couple of commercial products that claim to recover ext3
partitions. I don't mind paying some money for this, but the products
I've found so far all assume that you've got the drive on a Windows
machine. I guess we could arrange to move the drive to a Windows
system, but I wonder if there's any software that's linux-based that we
could use for this task.
parted has some simplistic "rescue" mode, see the info documentation.
This should be available from within an anaconda rescue boot. Usable if
you have a rough idea about the previous layout.
and there is
* GPart - recovers broken partition tables.
`http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart'
(static binary is available)
Best regards
Jan
