[Tfug] Data recovery learning opportunity

[Harry McGregor]

As a single partition... humm, I don't know, but if you ever need to
deal with a lost partition map, check out gpart.

		Harry

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Paul
Scott wrote:

> The first 500 blocks of my formerly working Debian woody/sid system were
> just zapped!  I made the mistake of leaving the woody install CD in the
> drive and while I was gone someone tried to start my computer and went
> right by the warning screen and initialized the Linux partition.  Yes, I
> had everything in one partition.  The system I am now building will have
> several partitions
>
> I'll pause while you laugh.
>
> I have copied the whole partition to another one on my new 40GB hard
> drive with:
> dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/dev/hda6
>
> Would that have given me a good working copy?  It seems to be Ok.
>
> I have found debugfs, lde and the Undeletion mini-HOWTO.  I am off to
> get a book with an accurate description of ext2 and possibly more tools..
>
> Does anyone know of any better tools?  There are some files which I need
> to recover.  I will write my own program if I don't find anything easier.
>
> TIA,
>
> Paul Scott
>
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