[TriLUG] screwed disk

[jason at monsterjam.org]

ok, thats what I was thinking too.. ill give that a shot..

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:35:52PM 
-0400, Alan Porter wrote:
> > oh well, so to my next question.. is there any way to get the files
> > off the disk somehow?  theres a few id like to salvage.
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> If the Linux partition was /dev/hda1, then you could boot Knoppix,
> run 'fdisk' and re-create the partition.  Guess (on the large side)
> for the size.  You might be able to mount the partition READ-ONLY.
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> Lucky example: 80G drive
> hda1 - Linux root, 75G
> hda2 - swap, 5G
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> Just make a new partition table starting at zero and using up at
> least 75G, maybe more, maybe even the whole disk.
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> Unlucky example: 80G drive
> hda1 - swap, 5G
> hda2 - Linux root, 75G
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> In this case, who knows where the partition starts?  Unless you used
> clean numbers like "+1024M" or something when you first partitioned.
> 
> Chances are, some installer did the partitions for you and you did
> not pay much attention to them.  In that case, guess with fdisk and
> then try to mount the filesystem read-only.  Lather, rinse, repeat.
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