Re: How to find a `lost' ext2fs partition?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Bram wrote:

> However, all my linux partitions are way
> beyond that point, and as such should still be on the disk. The obvious
> question therefore is: Is it possible to find these partitions and get
> files from them,

Sure - the probably easiest way is creating one large ext2 partition on
the disk (just fdisk, not mke2fs!), then doing something along the lines
of

PARTITION=/dev/whateveryourhugepartitioniscalled
SECT=0
while true; do
	if dumpe2fs -ob$SECT $PARTITION &>/dev/null; then
		echo Possible start of partition at sector $SECT
	fi
	SECT=`expr $SECT + 1`
done

Then create a partition starting there and try mounting it.

This is not exactly a clean way, but it should work and can't
hurt.

LLaP
bero