On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, "Ghaith Hachem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table': > help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition
For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to. > fdisk don't show it what can i do? > is there a way to restore it Well, you can just re-create it if you have the exact starting cylinder and upper bound on the ending cylinder (you can always make it w/ extra space on the end, at least temporarily). Without that information, you'll have to look for the filesystem superblock (I hope you weren't using NTFS), determine what cylinder that's on and start the partition there -- you can probably figure out the size of the filesystem from the superblock data, too. This is, of course, assuming you haven't written any data to the space used by the filesystem. In that case, you will almost certainly be unable to perform a full restore and have likely lost a large amount of your data, if not all. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
