I just recently partualy crashed the partition table of my HD when
running qtparted ( was resising hda1 but entrys of hda5 and hda6 were
deleted) and I backed up data from hda1 to hda5 before running qtparted.
As is was a lot of important data to me, I want to try to get it back.
I read a thread on your mailing list, but I was wondering if you could
explain this solution in a beginners way, as I 'm a newbie to repairing
filesystems ( no newbie to linux )
Try to find the start and end of every partition, use dd to dump each of
them in separate files and mount them as loop device.
I found XFS superblock, dd-ed whole partition and now my all important
data is back :-) Thanks for help.
If I find the superblocks which commands do I exactly use to " dd " the
whole partition and get the data back?
Do I need to run the xfsprogs commands from a floppy or can I use
knoppix-liveCD?
maybe there is a howto on partition recovery for XFS-filesystem for
newbies you can point me to?
Hope you can give some help as I don't know if this is the right way to
go for help on this matter.
best regards,
jack renders
netherlands.
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