Hi, [sorry about the cross-posting first]
The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test it. The result? -- After 1 hour and 25+ minutes of scanning, gpart was able to found 2 NTFS partitions, and 1 Linux swap partition. That's all it can find, out of my 15 partitions. I.e., none of my Linux partitions are recovered. Worse, it *wrongly* reports all found partitions as primary partitions. Yes, after nearly 1 hour and half none-stop HD led blinking, the only thing that I get is next to garbage. Then I gave testdisk a try, as a last line of defense in my current miserable situations. My first choice, quick scan, brought back all my partitions in a split of a second. 1 hour and half running with next to garbage finding vs instant accurate recovery -- I think we can conclude that gpart can retire now. The longer it is in our Debian repo, the more victims will it draw. To backup myself, this is taken from http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57748 "my harddrive recently had problems at the partition table and searches brought me to your article as well as to gpart's link. But gpart did not work for me (gives errors that it failed to determine the sector size, even when I specify it). Given my drive is newer, I am not surprised that it did not work, because gpart appears not having be updated since 2001", and it still at version 0.1. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i08fua$1q...@dough.gmane.org
