Re: partition table recovery

[Tom Pfeifer <mailmisc@snet.net>]

gpart is packaged for Debian and is in the unstable (potato)
distribution in the admin section:

root@newdebian:~# dpkg -s gpart
Package: gpart
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 62
Maintainer: David L. Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>
Version: 0.1e-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
 Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a
 PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is
 damaged, incorrect or deleted.
 .
 It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and
 sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical.
 It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them
 (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.).
 .
 The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly
 believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk
 device.
 .
 Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types:
 .
      DOS/Windows FAT (FAT 12/16/32)
      Linux ext2
      Linux swap partitions versions 0 and 1 (Linux >= v2.2.X)
      OS/2 HPFS
      Windows NTFS
      *BSD disklabels
      Solaris/x86 disklabels
      Minix FS
      Reiser FS
      LVM physical volumes
 .
 Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled
modules.


"Jonathan D . Proulx" wrote:
> 
> I had a hosed partition table (mixed Linux Windows)that I succesfully
> recovered using gpart.
> 
> AFAIK this is not debianized yet, and unfortunately I forget wher I
> got it from :(
> 
> If a search doesn't turn it up, I do still have the source and will
> send on request.
> 
> HTH,
> Jon
>