On 28/11/07 18:38, Michael Hannon wrote:
> Hi, folks.  I managed to shoot myself in the foot yesterday during a
> kickstart installation.  I was installing to a PATA drive on a system
> with a second, SCSI drive.  I was using the SCSI drive to store the
> files I wanted to preserve.  Unfortunately, I had a "clearpart --linux"
> command in the kickstart file.  (For reasons I won't describe I was
> "borrowing" a kickstart file that we had used successfully on systems
> with only a single disk drive.)
> 
> I suspect that all of the files I need are still present on the disk, as
> there has been no use of the disk since the clearpart operation.  I'm
> looking for some partition-recovery software that will restore the
> previous partitions.
> 
> I've seen a couple of commercial products that claim to recover ext3
> partitions.  I don't mind paying some money for this, but the products
> I've found so far all assume that you've got the drive on a Windows
> machine.  I guess we could arrange to move the drive to a Windows
> system, but I wonder if there's any software that's linux-based that we
> could use for this task.


parted has some simplistic "rescue" mode, see the info documentation. 
This should be available from within an anaconda rescue boot. Usable if 
you have a rough idea about the previous layout.


and there is
   * GPart - recovers broken partition tables.
      `http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart'
   (static binary is available)

Best regards
Jan