On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:37:31 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: >> quick scan > > An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui > ... > I have recovered deleted partitions this way ,never had to do a whole > hard drive. > > I found this that has more detail: > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html
which says, ,----- | Write this back on paper (or do “/sbin/fdisk -l | lpr” and | “/sbin/fdisk -u -l | lpr” to print it) and save it in a safe | place for future use. `----- But actually, there is a much better cli way: To backup the current disk partition setting, use the following command: sfdisk -d /dev/$HD | tee partition.$HD.info Most importantly, partitions can be recreated by this simple command: # recreate partition sfdisk --no-reread /dev/$HD < partition.$HD.info Then reboot ASAP. Ref: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/general/disk01- PartitionTools/index.html#cmd_sfdisk Once my Linux partition was recovered, I used this method to recreate my whole partitions. -- 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/i0910d$bp...@dough.gmane.org
