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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:44:07
Message-Id: 16801031.VxoPS861Co@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed by Jack
1 On Monday, 17 December 2018 23:19:39 GMT Jack wrote:
2
3 > At this point, I think I've forgotten the details, but using the
4 > example of a 300G drive with 100G empty and then a 200G partition, when
5 > I moved the partition to the beginning of the disk (using gparted, as I
6 > remember) once it moved more than the first 100G of the partition, it
7 > overwrote the beginning of the original partition, and once it
8 > overwrote any of the directory structure it still needed to know where
9 > stuff was, game over.
10
11 Gparted can handle that without difficulty - I do it often - so I think you
12 must be mistaken in the tool you used.
13
14 Sorry not to be more helpful...
15
16 --
17 Regards,
18 Peter.

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