Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table [SOLVED]

[Ghaith Hachem]

ok problem solved, the partion deleted was ext3 i must have clicked
install without paying attention to the format partion dialog in the
installer anyway i used
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and it recovered my data


On 3/9/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, "Ghaith Hachem" <blacksadness@×××××.com>
> wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table':
> > help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition
>
> For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to.
>
> > fdisk don't show it what can i do?
> > is there a way to restore it
>
> Well, you can just re-create it if you have the exact starting cylinder and
> upper bound on the ending cylinder (you can always make it w/ extra space
> on the end, at least temporarily).
>
> Without that information, you'll have to look for the filesystem superblock
> (I hope you weren't using NTFS), determine what cylinder that's on and
> start the partition there -- you can probably figure out the size of the
> filesystem from the superblock data, too.
>
> This is, of course, assuming you haven't written any data to the space used
> by the filesystem.  In that case, you will almost certainly be unable to
> perform a full restore and have likely lost a large amount of your data,
> if not all.
>
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Cheers,
Ghaith

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