Re: Help! partition table!
Hello,
Again this may be way too trivial, but I recently did a mkswap on my root
partition instead of the space set aside for swap. I noticed the prob just as
you and switched off the machine and restarted with similar results as you.
To recover I rebooted from my Debian CD and did a fsck /dev/hda? and it was
able to recover my data. Have you tried that?? It may just work for
u.....keep me posted as to wat happ.
Bye for now
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 3:33 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 02:34 pm, Hugo Ideler wrote:
> > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I
> > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference?
> >
> > But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible
> > to recover files deleted (not shreded)? Deleted files after all don't
> > have an entry in the FAT anymore?
> >
> > I also had some important data in my ~/Mail folder. Mail from my pop
> > account, so it's not remotely stored. And I of course was stupid and lazy
> > enough to not back things up.
> >
> > So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :)
> >
> > --Azaghal
>
> May be off base but what hapens if you create a new partition with the
> exact same geometry , then mount the partiton without initializing it. The
> program 'ntfsresize' does something similar to this and seems to work.
>
> --
> Greg Madden
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