[olug] lost partition table

[John Hobbs]

Jay's got it all right.

If you are paranoid you can dd the disk first just to be safe. :-)

Once you get it back you might want to look at something like Jungle
Disk [1] for saving the stuff that has real (or strong sentimental)
value off site, it's pretty reasonable.


- John Hobbs

[1] http://www.jungledisk.com/

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com> wrote:
> You should just have to put back the partition table.
>
> fdisk /dev/sdc
> p #prints partition table to see whats there.
> t # change type
>
> #If there is only one partition, it will be autoselected.
>
> 83 # linux
> p  # verify it's what you want
> w  # write/quit
>
>
>
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> Quoting Mr Scsi <mrscsi at gmail.com>:
>
>> I'm sure this must have been discussed somewhere along the way, but I'm so
>> mad at myself I can't think clearly.
>>
>> I ran an upgrade this weekend and have 3 drives. sda, sdb are / and /home.
>> sdc was reserved as a full copy of /home.
>>
>> Disk druid marked sdc as an unallocated lvm PV but never formated it, only
>> changed the partition table so I'm sure the data is still there.
>>
>> How would I go about resetting it to ext3 format without losing all the data
>> so I can mount it?
>> Is there a was to recover the data natively in linux?
>>
>>
>> Any howto's, pointers and blatent hand holding will be useful as the spousal
>> unit is PO'd that I lost 3 years of pictures.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> Andy
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