On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:39:14 -0700, Mark wrote:
>> It sounds like a good time to stop using "Windows apps".
>>
>>
> Especially naughty runaway Windows apps that wipe partition tables.
Honestly, all I did was just to close the lid of my laptop and went to
sleep. Next morning, I found my laptop wi
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:13 AM, green wrote:
> T o n g wrote at 2010-06-27 16:30 -0500:
> > The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it
> > still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a
> > running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:36:16 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> You must file a bug against it stating your assertion and your
> reasoning.
Ok, will do -- wasn't sure if I should report to WNPP or something else...
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http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/
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T o n g wrote at 2010-06-27 16:30 -0500:
> The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it
> still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a
> running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test it. The result? --
It sounds like a good time to sto
On 6/27/2010 4:30 PM, T o n g wrote:
The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it
still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a
running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test it.
I have had very good results with TestDisk. It is about
T o n g wrote at 2010-06-27 21:22 -0500:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:37:31 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> But actually, there is a much better cli way:
>
> To backup the current disk partition setting, use the following command:
>
> sfdisk -d /dev/$HD | tee partition.$HD.info
>
> Most importantly, p
On 06/27/2010 04:30 PM, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
[sorry about the cross-posting first]
The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it
still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a
running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test it. The result? -
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:37:31 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
>> quick scan
>
> An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui
> ...
> I have recovered deleted partitions this way ,never had to do a whole
> hard drive.
>
> I found this that has more detail:
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-
On Sunday 27 June 2010 13:30:50 T o n g wrote:
> quick scan
An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui
You can use the same strategy for partition tables as data ...backups.
'fdisk -l /dev/' > partition_table.txt,
Then use fdisk to create partitons again. This will write a
bage finding vs instant
accurate recovery -- I think we can conclude that gpart can retire now.
The longer it is in our Debian repo, the more victims will it draw.
To backup myself, this is taken from
http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57748
"my harddrive recently had problems at the partitio
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