On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:06 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/13/05, Jeremy T. Bouse <jbouse@debian.org> wrote: > > Quite a pickle you've found yourself in, this is a good example > > for why not using root much is good. If at this time all you've done is > > repartition and save the partition table then the data *should* still be > > in tact on the drive. Experience with data forensics has taught me this. > > Yes, but even if I had done a sudo, still I might have done the same > thing. My fault was that I became careless in using the write command > in fdisk. I shoould have double-checked. My own problem is in telling the difference between drives. At least Linux calls them hda and sda (I usually have a SCSI drive on the / dir(s), and an IDE for a cheap black hole). BSD calls them 'ad' and 'da'! Dyslexics of the world untie :-) This thread is also an argument for partitioning disks the way my laptop is: All one partition. At least it's easy to remember... -- Glenn English ghe@slsware.com GPG ID: D0D7FF20
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