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Solved, was: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??



On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:08:20 +0530, 
"Vikas B N" <vikas_bn@infosys.com> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 56E2573C375A414191118970BDE06A150BA5D7E3@kecmsg06.ad.infosys.com>:

> Hello All,
> 
>  I finally recovered all my partitions back!
>  Thanks to all who helped me! (Michael,Anita,Alvin) :)
>  and to Michail Brzitwa who wrote "gpart". :)
>  Thanks are also due to the guys who wrote the 
>  "linux partitioning how-to".
> 
>  For the benefit of others who might face the same,
>  (though I hope not), 
> 
>  I ran gpart and got the exact sizes of the partitions
>  involved. Then used fdisk to delete the remaining one
>  logical partition(swap space) and recreated all other
>  logical partitions by giving the exact size reported
>  by gpart. I wrote the partition table to disk, rebooted
>  and mounted those partitions and voila!
>  I have all the data and partitions intact now.
>  
>  Just to add, one of the partitions was a FAT32 one,
>  which was also recovered!!
> 
> -vikas

..you forgot a wee detail in your subject line 
to help facilitate searches.  ;-)

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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