On 7/16/05, Anders Norrbring wrote:

Anyone with any great ideas on partition recovery?

One of my servers went to a hang yesterday, I rebooted and nothing happened..

Both the first and second volumes on the Compaq Array has lost their partition tables, how that now can happen...

The first volume contained the root and swap file systems, the second carried the /home sub tree.

I've made disk copies with dd to files, but how would I go on from here? gpart doesn't find anything on any of the volumes, I haven't tried Partition Magic yet, someone suggested that one, but I can't see how it would do any good.

Suggestions are really welcome!

Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

If all you lost is the partition table, you should be okay. I just googled for "partition table recovery" and found lots of interesting choices. If you know the general layout of your table and your willing to do some manual work, give this a read: http://www.datarescue.com/laboratory/partition.htm http://www.datarescue.com/laboratory/partition2.htm Sort of old, but it should still apply. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

On Saturday 16 Jul 2005 15:29, Anders Norrbring wrote:

Anyone with any great ideas on partition recovery?

So long as it's just the partition table that's fscked gpart (which will already be installed) is pretty damn good at locating partitions and re-creating the partition table. Dylan -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)

Anders Norrbring wrote:

Anyone with any great ideas on partition recovery?

One of my servers went to a hang yesterday, I rebooted and nothing happened..

Both the first and second volumes on the Compaq Array has lost their partition tables, how that now can happen...

The first volume contained the root and swap file systems, the second carried the /home sub tree.

I've made disk copies with dd to files, but how would I go on from here? gpart doesn't find anything on any of the volumes, I haven't tried Partition Magic yet, someone suggested that one, but I can't see how it would do any good.

Not free, but powerful, and what I use for all partitioning: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm Other possibilities below. -- "If you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html