Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! partition table! Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 00:34:37 +0200 Whoops... That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your last one? A partition itself can be found again when it disappears from the disklabel,

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:57:05PM +, Hugo Ideler wrote: > Well, I'd love to give it a try, as I have nothing to lose. > But, how do I get to your 'fsck' utility? I rebooted to my Woody CD1 just a > few secs ago, went to shell, but got 'fsck: no such command'. Use /sbin/fsck if /sbin isn't in

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Hugo Ideler
Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! partition table! Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:19:03 +0530 Hello, Again this may be way too trivial, but I recently did a mkswap on my root partition instead of the space set aside for swap. I no

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, Again this may be way too trivial, but I recently did a mkswap on my root partition instead of the space set aside for swap. I noticed the prob just as you and switched off the machine and restarted with similar results as you. To recover I rebooted from my Debian CD and did a fsck /dev

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 07 March 2003 02:34 pm, Hugo Ideler wrote: > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? > > But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible > to recover files delet

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
This mail is solely to keep anyone up to date that was following this thread. I tried to no success recover my data. I tried demos of expensive recovery software - and some could find superblocks, but not recover my files. It seems the message is quite clear - no FAT - no recovery. I've managed

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Robert Storey
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:34:43 + "Hugo Ideler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? This probably won't work, but you could boot with a rescue CD (Knoppix is k

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
rectory. :) --Azaghal From: Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hugo Ideler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! partition table! Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 00:34:37 +0200 Whoops... That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your last

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Whoops... That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your last one? A partition itself can be found again when it disappears from the disklabel, but this is different. AFAIK, the data (or probably 99% of it) is still there, on your partition, but there's no filesystem to t

Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
My disk layout: hda1: Windows XP 10 GB hda2: Debian 3.0 40 GB I've been happily using debian 3.0 woody for 2 weeks now. I decided it was time for an adventure and decided to install sarge unstable to my scsi drive. I booted the cdrom, and had fdisk write the partition table to my scsi drive. the

Re: HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-17 Thread Arup Mukherjee
Jason Gunthorpe writes: > On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Arup Mukherjee wrote: > > >I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what > > some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my > > disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or > > wind

Re: HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-16 Thread Gertjan Klein
"Arup Mukherjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm under the impression (from the debian fdisk man page, among other > things) that DOS/W95 store a copy of the partition table in their boot > sectors, and use its info in preference to that from the MBR. Assuming > that's true, I'd just like to

Re: HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! Arup Mukherjee writes: > > > Ralph Winslow writes: > > Arup Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what > > > some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my > > > disks, as linux sees them, are screw

Re: HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-16 Thread Arup Mukherjee
Ralph Winslow writes: > Arup Mukherjee wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what > > some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my > > disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or > > windows 95

Re: HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Arup Mukherjee wrote: > > Hi, > I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what > some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my > disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or > windows 95 from the hard disks (vi

HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-16 Thread Arup Mukherjee
Hi, I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or windows 95 from the hard disks (via lilo, which still works), both dos and w95 still hav