Subj : Re: Re-building a partition table?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Mon Dec 13 2004 03:13 pm

Barg enlightened us with:
> Is it possible to re-build a partition table in Linux?

Yes.

> I accidentally reformatted a partition!

So you didn't change the partition table. You're talking about
"unformatting" a partition, which is an operation on a partition, not
the partition table.

> and a look at part.img shows the data's still there.
>
> Any suggestions about how I should proceed now...?

I have no idea. Recovering a partition table can be done with gpart,
but I have no experience in recovering a formatted filesystem.

Sybren
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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