[CLUE-Tech] URGENT HELP: recover from fdisk

[Brandon N]

unfortunatly, I misspoke, it wasn't an fdisk that I did, I did an mkfs
on the wrong disk.  I"m guessing that is considerably harder to recover
from.  I managed to restore most things from backup, I just lost about
a months worth of custom built slakpaks.

Brandon
--- Dave Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:
> Brandon N wrote:
> 
> > anyone know if there is a way to recover data from a mistaken
> *ahem*
> > fdisk?
> 
> If all you did was fdisk, there's hope.  You will have hosed your
> partition table, but your filesystems and data are intact.  The
> easiest
> fix is to redo fdisk and put everything back the way it was (do you
> remember what partitions you had and how big they were?)
> 
> If you can at least get the start of a partition where it was, and
> the
> end preferably past the end of the filesystem on that partition, you
> should be able to get data off the fs.  You might be able to check
> the
> size (df) and refigure the end of the partition, but that's hard
> because
> of how KB, MB, and cylinders are used inconsistently to show sizes.
> 
> If you have space that can hold the whole drive (tape, a bigger
> drive, a
> partition in unused space (and far from the partitions you've
> hosed)),
> you can dd a backup so that if you hose it worse you can at least get
> back to where you started.
> 
> Finally, there is a HOWTO about undeleting files from ext2fs.  Take a
> look at it and at other fs HOWTOs in the same category and see if
> they
> help.
> 
> Sorry I don't have a silver bullet, but if you haven't written into
> the
> the new partitions, there's hope.  I have been playing with moving
> partitions around (with data in them by making complete copies), so
> if
> you want more help, let me know more details about what you had and
> what
> you did.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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