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On Tuesday 15 August 2006 22:37, jai kumar wrote: |
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> But I have no clue for how to get back my gentoo partition. Is there any |
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> way to rescue that parition? |
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You could try googling for partition recovery tools. Some of them will let |
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you recover files from a lost partition and save them somewhere else; then |
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you can re-create the partition and copy the files back in. |
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On a more general point, I used to swear by PartitionMagic; nowadays I swear |
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at it. It suffers from the usual Windows philosophy that users are not to |
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be trusted to know anything, and that it knows best what to do. So if, for |
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instance, I copy a partition to a spare disk as backup, and later copy it |
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back to its original place, PM goes and finds all the partitions with |
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an /etc/fstab and changes all the partition numbers it finds there. |
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Naturally, the system then won't boot until I find the damage and fix it. |
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Recently I found a nifty little 60GB USB disk; I use tar to back my |
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partitions up to that now. Slow, but it feels safe and reliable, which PM |
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has ceased doing. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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