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