Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 02.12.2014 19:27, tv.debian@googlemail.com a écrit :
> On 02/12/2014 20:48, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
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>
> > Also, what is EBR (or EPBR, which seems to be some sort of enhanced
> > whatever may be a EBR)?
>
> Extended Boot Record on DOS disks ? Where information about extended
> partition is stored.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record
>
>
> To fix things, I tried to take a look at
> > testdisk, which was able to find partitions. Lot of them, in facts,
> > included lot of... removed partitions (I did a lot of experiments on
> > that disk before). Plus, I have no idea about how to ask it 
> > (testdisk)
> > to fix, apply things?
> > Any document about how to use it? Not the man, I already have read 
> > it,
> > and it's plain useless.
>
> I think you read French, if not the page is available in English too.

I do.

> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_FR
>
> It's from TestDisk author.
>
> Hope it helps.

It does, thanks. For now, I'll keep that disk in that state, in case 
informations and testing might be useful to maintainers.
I'll try to repair things in few weeks, probably.