From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jdng4-0004dJ-20 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:29:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 164B8E07BA; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD13E07BA for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (8.13.3/8.13.3) with UUCP id m2OETI7k022499 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:29:18 +0100 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id m2OESeiX032023 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:28:40 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:28:40 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted Message-ID: <20080324142840.GB10053@nibiru.local> References: <20080323105230.M69449@xvalheru.org> <20080323115635.M31359@xvalheru.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Terror: bin laden, kill bush, Briefbombe, Massenvernichtung, KZ, X-Nazi: Weisse Rasse, Hitlers Wiederauferstehung, 42, X-Antichrist: weg mit schaeuble, ausrotten, heiliger krieg, al quaida, X-Killer: 23, endloesung, Weltuntergang, X-Doof: wer das liest ist doof X-Archives-Salt: a9dde396-a4ab-4c89-95a7-ec33f2dec17b X-Archives-Hash: 9f6afec059f9afaa86ea67d142264695 * Stroller wrote: > >- is the photorec able to search data in this partition table > >corruption level? > > Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just looks at the > bits on the drive and saves any collection of said bits which match > specification for a jpeg, doc &c file. I.E. no remaining filesystem > is needed, it does exactly what you need (although filenames aren't > preserved. I don't know about the other suggestions, so they might be > worth trying first. Yes, photorec is an completely different thing. It scans through all blocks on disk and tries to find out what kind of files they might belong to. This way you can reconstruct a lot of files if you lost the fs' metadata (which can happen easily on FAT :(). But this is an heuristic, not an stable approach. So you have to look through all reconstructed files if they're really okay. If just the partition table is broken, you shouldn't play with this - use testdisk instead. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list