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

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