Douglas Alan said: > Umm, if I had, err, by chance, configured Kickstart to "remove all > existing partitions", it wouldn't happen to remove all partitions on ALL > disk drives, would it, and not just the boot disk drive?
I haven't used kickstart myself but I would expect it to remove all partitions on all disks if you told it to remove all existing partitions .. > And if it would, is there any way that I might recover them? (The ones on > the other disk drives, that is. If I had -- just hypothetically speaking > -- done such a thing, I wouldn't care about the partitions on the boot > disk drive. And no, under such circumstances, I probably wouldn't know > offhand the locations and sizes of the partitions.) not easily. Only way I can think of is to use a hex editor, figure out what the format is of the beginining of a filesystems(perhaps by looking at the first few blocks of a known good filesystem) then use a hex editor to read the disk to find any matches of such headers, if you find a match then, somehow, you may have a map of the existing partition table, use fdisk to make the partitions and try to fsck or mount them. But realistically your data is probably gone, and unless theres pricelss information on those partitions your better off spent restoring from a backup or something then spending the time trying to reconstruct the partition table. Or you could contact one of them data recovery companies ..and when I mean spending time I'm talkin about hours and hours..days and days working on this, not just 30 minutes or something. if it were me I would just forget about it.. nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
