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On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, "Ghaith Hachem" <blacksadness@×××××.com> |
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wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table': |
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> help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition |
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For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to. |
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> fdisk don't show it what can i do? |
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> is there a way to restore it |
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Well, you can just re-create it if you have the exact starting cylinder and |
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upper bound on the ending cylinder (you can always make it w/ extra space |
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on the end, at least temporarily). |
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Without that information, you'll have to look for the filesystem superblock |
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(I hope you weren't using NTFS), determine what cylinder that's on and |
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start the partition there -- you can probably figure out the size of the |
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filesystem from the superblock data, too. |
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This is, of course, assuming you haven't written any data to the space used |
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by the filesystem. In that case, you will almost certainly be unable to |
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perform a full restore and have likely lost a large amount of your data, |
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if not all. |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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