[sclug] Recovering partition tables

Keith Edmunds keith at midnighthax.com
Tue Aug 16 15:48:54 UTC 2005


Peter Brewer wrote:
> Anyone know if I can 
> recover any of the data? 

IF you know the partition layout then simply recreate the partitions. If
only the partition tables have gone then the data will still be
accessible. Hint for the future: do 'fdisk -l /dev/xxx > a_file' as part
of your backup procedures.

hth,
Keith

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Keith Edmunds

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