Re: Partition/file systems restored.

[Philippe Moutarlier <philippe kscable com>]

Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com> writes:

> thats great!
> 
> But can you (or perhaps Bero) give a better explanation as to how you
> determined the partition sizes? You might want to remind us what info you
> had to start with etc. 
> 
> I'd really like to understand this.
>

Me too! can you actually access your data ? How did you do this ?
This can be a valuable information for some (maybe a lot ??) of people.

Philippe  

 
> thanks
> charles
> 
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> 
> > With the help of Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, the partition has been restored
> > on the drive that got screwed up.
> > 
> > We were always able to see the first partition's file system, it was the
> > 2nd one that eluded us.  Then a light bulb turn on over Bernhard after I found
> > that the 2nd filesystem was not starting on a cylinder boundary.
> > 
> > It turns out that fdisk will not round to a cylinder boundary is a size
> > is given, i.e., instead of using cylinders.  It ended up where it ended up.
> > Once the correct end location was determined for the 1st file system, it
> > was easy to determine the start of the 2nd filesystem.
> > 
> > A hearty thank you to Red Hat's Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.
> 
> 
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