on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +0000, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into > > my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I > > can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what > > partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted > > windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and > > fs-type). > > > > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? > > gpart may be able to help you.
Doh! I'd skimmed Matthew's email and assumed he'd *damaged* the disk somehow. Not. If you're just trying to read the partition table off a disk, fdisk, cfdisk, or any other full-featured partitioning tool should be able to read it. That's what the system-info script (below) does. That said: Print out the table, post it to your website, etc. > If you remember the partition sizes, you can try rebuilding the > partition table and mounting filesystems *READ ONLY*, which may > succeed in recovering some (or all) of your partitions. This is not > quite as improbable as it sounds. > > This is also a very good illustration of why you should keep vital > system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a > remotely accessible system). > > I use a script "system-info" to provide this and other data: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
