Re (2): Need script to loop fdisk
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- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:24:02 +0000 (UTC)
In article <ke1g89-u9p.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2012-05-17, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:Great, Thanks !! I don't have to describe what it's like 'recovering'?
On 2012-05-16, NoHtmlMailsPlease wrote:
According to my logs, in Oct 2005 I used a method that was publicised on
these
groups, and it worked for me, and now I'm trying to remember how it worked.
It went something like this:-
A script which repeatedly calls `fdisk` while increasing the size of the
new-partition, and thus incrementally moving the partition "boundry" of
the new/next partition, and testing for
<yes that's where the previously lost boundry WAS>.
That sounds like something I wrote several years ago.
I can't find the script right now, but IIRC it looped with a new
call to fdisk (with changed parameters in a here document) in each
iteration.
I'll see if I can find it.
<http://compgroups.net/comp.os.linux.misc/need-ash-script-interesting-hack/563583>
You've got a good filing system.
IMO 'search' is the most important unappreciated facility of computing.
That's why google could control the world.
The hdx17 which was recovered was a big important partition,
and the following ones are just backups.
But IIRC previously I fixed a hdx26 and I thought 'the rest of the
chain was OK'. But that's not so simple, since as a linked list,
now, the recovered hdx17 has got a 'terminator'.
Knowing the size of hdx17, I could link it to hdx18, and then the
rest of the chain might be ok.
Normally one shouldn't mess with this stuff, but I've opened the
can-O-worms in connection with LILO & grub for a netbook
running on a Compact Flash, which won't boot; and I can't let it go.
Thanks a lot.
.
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