[YLUG] recovering partition table

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, john halewood wrote:

> 2009/7/25 Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk>:
>> Thank for the advice.
>>
>> So, I think that the best would be to make a dd if=/dev/sdd5 of=/tmp/sdd5
>> (and so on for each partitions), but I failed in dd because I guess
>> that I am do giving the right count !
>>
>> Than I could do either a mount of the file (if it recognize the type)
>> or a fsck of the file ?
>
> No Worried on two counts, one is that there's no labels for the
> partitions, which I would expect to be automatically set up, and also
> that if you do dd if=/dev/sdd5 of=/tmp/sdd5, it'll be of no use, and
> anyway, where's /tmp mounted? On /dev/sdd? That won't work at all. Do
> you know what filesystem was on these partitions in the first place?
> (ext3, reiser,xfs etc). They all show up as 'linux' but that doesn't
> prove much.
>
If I am correct:
dd if=/dev/sdd5 of=/dev/VG2/tmp works if /dev/VG2/tmp is an unmounted
partition, but if of=/tmp/sdd5 is a file on aa mounted /tmp partition,
if does not work !
All the partition are ext3 (except the swap sdd1)

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