On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0500, Matthew Klassen wrote:
> So I had this genuis idea that I would do a dd copy from the
> second partition to the first partition which would end up writing
> over the second partition, all just using the same drive.
> [***first***][******Second*******]
> [******Second********]*********]
> However when this finished it wouldn't mount and after a number of
> attempts at recovery, I could only get about 1/10th of the actually
> data restored :( <id10t>
>
> So my question is, how should have I done this? What else could I
> have done to save that data? I didn't want to delete anything off the
> other 20Gig drive so I wouldn't be able to
> move that data around.
AFAIK this should work flawlessly. Are you sure that you have modified
partition table correctly after copying?
O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@xxxxxxxx>
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