On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:37:44 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: > > recently I wiped out all but one partition tables by stupidness and hasty > reading ... > > Thanks to testdisk, most of the damage is already fixed. > > There are 2 drives, that testdisk could not find the partion informations for. > Accidently I discovered "/var/log/installer/partman", which looks like being > from the time before my dumb Chuck-Norris-Roundhouse-Kick ;) > > That logfile looks like having reasonable partition informations of all > drives. > > Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables with > informations from that file, so it might be possible to gain access to data > ...
I looked at my /var/log/installer/partman file, and it does indeed look as though the exact sector information for the partitions is there. I would suggest using the "parted" command from the package of the same name. It can allocate partitions and report on them at the sector level. For example, parted /dev/sda unit s print free parted /dev/sda unit s mkpart ... -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2015154596.1732737.1301148012639.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
