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On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 11:14 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. |
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Yes, I discovered gpart last night. It can be a useful tool for |
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partition problems, although in this case it has turned out that |
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testdisk was what I needed. |
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gpart doesn't deal with logical partitions very well. It took hours for |
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it to find my old partitions and even then it is left to you to do some |
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quite gruesome arithmetic to work out where the start of your partition |
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actually is. I just couldn't recreate a valid partition that way. |
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testdisk on the other hand immediately identified all the deleted |
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partitions and I only needed to select one button to write them back to |
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the partition map. After opening and saving them again in fdisk to make |
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the kernel aware of the changes I had my files back again. |
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However if you have changed anything on your disk apart from the |
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partition map you will need to use gpart and may the gods have mercy on |
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your soul. |
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> In your other thread you mentioned you had no space for backing up a |
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> partition. Too bad I didn't have the idea earlier, but you could create |
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> a "copy on write" partiton, for example with network block devices (needs |
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> kernel support and sys-block/nbd) or sys-fs/cowloop. This way, you could |
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> rescue any data, without touching your original partition and you have no |
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> need to backup the whole partition. |
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Never heard of this before. Will have to look into it. Could never work |
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out a good backup strategy, which is why I got in this mess. |
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I'll probably give gentoo a rest for now after all this. Try a live CD |
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for while--musix or dynebolic or something--see how I get on and decide |
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from there. I've learned a lot using gentoo but it's getting very time |
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consuming maintaining everything. After installing Ubuntu Dapper on a |
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couple of other machines my expecations of a Linux distro have become a |
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lot more demanding. I don't need to do everything. What I need most is |
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for music and video stuff to work without a lot of maintenance. Let |
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someone else with more sense than I am ever likely to have choose the |
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CFLAGS because my builds of rosegarden and whatnot are far too unstable. |
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But as I've said before, one thing that gentoo really has going for it |
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is a patient and knowledgeable user base. I've found the ubuntu |
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community to be very welcoming too, although generally it lacks the |
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accumulation of experience with hard problems that marks gentoo users |
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out. |
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Robert |
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Robert |
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