[YLUG] recovering partition table

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, john halewood wrote:

> 2009/7/25 Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After I made a mistake, I am trying to recover my disks.
>> this is the results of fdisk:
>> which seems OK, but I cannot mount the partition because the filesystem
>> is not recognize (VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdd5)
>>
>> How can I repair it ?
> Boot into single user mode (add 'single' to the grub boot line), then
> run fsck on /dev/sdd5 and see what it tells you. May be recoverable,
> but if the boundaries have changed you might have a big problem.
My understanding is: do not use fsck, it mess up every things
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