Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:13:08 +0100
From: Guest section DW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 09:27:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Actually, there are two such tools.
>
> (i) fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html)
> (ii) gpart (http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/)
Ha, Ted, you quote my text, but remove the rescuept part. Why?
Have you decided the other two are better? In that case I disagree.
I have lots of reports where people could not achieve anything
with fixdisktable and had success with rescuept.
Maybe fixdisktable is buggy on large disks.
I think that if you quote only two out of the four then
it should be rescuept and gpart.
I removed rescuept and findsuper because they are both manual tools, and
in my experience a lot of the people asking for help don't have the
expertise to use the manual tools. Since what I sent is my "stock
answer" for when people ask me for help, I optimized the list for tools
where people would be less likely to send me e-mail again asking for
help. (I don't have the time to be a generic Linux help desk, but I
still want to help people get their work done.)
If there are cases where rescuept will recover information that gpart or
fixdisktable will not, then I should probably update my stock answer
file to include it. Better yet, someone with time should get this into
one of the HOWTO documents for the LDP. Any volunteers? :-)
- Ted
