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 deleted

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Hugo Ideler
] 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 noticed the prob just as you and switched

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 Johan Ehnberg
: 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, but this is different. AFAIK, the data (or probably 99

Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
My disk layout: hda1: Windows XP 10 GB hda2: Debian 3.0 40 GB I've been happily using debian 3.0 woody for 2 weeks now. I decided it was time for an adventure and decided to install sarge unstable to my scsi drive. I booted the cdrom, and had fdisk write the partition table to my scsi drive.

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

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
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 one? A partition itself can be found again when it disappears

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 kind

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

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 windows 95

HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)

1997-03-16 Thread Arup Mukherjee
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 (via lilo, which still works), both dos and w95 still

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 (via

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 from the

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 screwed up. However, if

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 make