[H-GEN] degrees of filesystem sickness?

[Martin Pool]

>On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Allen Grace wrote:

>> As for running real OSes again: seeing as we both have partitions which
>> are not usable anyway, maybe it's possible to write some kind of protected
>> mode program to give us an idea of what is actually in the first block,
>
>debugfs should be able to do that fine.

OK: If you have a hardcopy of how the partition table was configured on the
disk, then you can just run fdisk, enter the _exact_ same start and 
end cylinders, and your partition table will be rewritten and all
the partitions should be readable.  You can go from there to using
debugfs or fsck on your partitions.

If you don't have a record -- and I admit I don't do it for home machines 
-- but you think you can remember the order and size in megabytes of 
your partitions, then try creating new partitions of that size.

Otherwise, do something else, and record the partitions next time: the
partition table is a SPoF and deserves to be backed up.

--
Martin Pool



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