Re: How to uninitialise partition?

[meierrj@frc.com]

Nick,

	Having had to recover disks in in the past (on Apples, Macs, IBMS,
and SGIs) I offer the folowing hint.  If linux fdisk is able to recover the
disk, great!  If not, and you must extract the files from the disk dump
(from dd?), I have found the inode-reading features (-i -C -c -k) of cpio
(and afio) very useful.  See the manuals for details.

	If you are not already familiar with the inode system used by *nix,
please mail me direct and I can provide explanation or point you at some
textbooks that will probably give you more detail than you would ever want.

	You are not the first (or the last) who has munged a disk without
a backup.  You are far ahead of most, in that you stopped before further
damage was done.

						Good luck,
-- 
						Robert Meier

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