Re: recover partition table

2011-03-27 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:42:15 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: I don't want to offend you, but all that you wrote I already found from google and friends. ... But I can make some educated guesses. For example, here's an excerpt from my /var/log/installer/partman

recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Geronimo
Hello, recently I wiped out all but one partition tables by stupidness and hasty reading ... Thanks to testdisk, most of the damage is already fixed. There are 2 drives, that testdisk could not find the partion informations for. Accidently I discovered /var/log/installer/partman, which looks

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: Hello, recently I wiped out all but one partition tables by stupidness and hasty reading ... Thanks to testdisk, most of the damage is already fixed. There are 2 drives, that testdisk could not find the partion informations for. Accidently I

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Geronimo
Hello, thank your for your assistance. Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables with informations from that file, so it might be possible to gain access to data ... maybe you can fix it,

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:37:44 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: recently I wiped out all but one partition tables by stupidness and hasty reading ... Thanks to testdisk, most of the damage is already fixed. There are 2 drives, that testdisk could not find the partion informations for.

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:59:20 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: Not sure about fdisk. Does fdisk write partition table entry only? ... or does it have side effects on existing data - like wiping out superblock of existing fs, so you have to format the partition? I don't want to increase the

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: Hello, thank your for your assistance. Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables with informations from that file, so it might be possible to

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Geronimo
Hello, thank you all for your attention and assistance. Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:37:44 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: That logfile looks like having reasonable partition informations of all drives. Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:36:08 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: I'm a bit confused. I tried to read partition info from hex-dump of first block and compare that with the values from /var/log/installer/partman ... According to partition info from wiki the biggest number of chs is 0x3FF,

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:36:08 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: I'm a bit confused. I tried to read partition info from hex-dump of first block and compare that with the values from /var/log/installer/partman ... According to partition info from wiki the

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Vivek Periaraj
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Geronimo wrote: Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables with informations from that file, so it might be possible to gain access to data ... This may not be what you are looking for, but if your aim is to get the partition table back, did

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:42:15 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: I don't want to offend you, but all that you wrote I already found from google and friends. What I did not find is some info about partman logging. Searching debian MLs for partman has millions of hits, so its the same like no

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 02:59:20PM +0100, Geronimo wrote: Hello, thank your for your assistance. Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables with informations from that file, so it might be