Re: help! dd wiped out source partition

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Richard E. Hawkins writes:
> I then made a partition the same size as /home at the very end of
> the disk, and used dd to copy the old partition to the new.

*Exactly* what dd command did you give?  What does the new partition look
like now?

I am very much afraid that you copied the new partition onto the old.  If
so, it's hopeless.
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