VERY OT, But this guy really needs help

[Mike McCarty]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Over on the Debian lists is a guy who clobbered his partitions
>>last night, late. I spent a few hours poring over his information
>>trying to get things back for him, but couldn't. I used to be
>>quite expert on how MSDOS uses partitions, but I'm not much on
>>how Linux does it. I gave him just about my best effort, but
>>AFAICT he's stuck. I can't see where anything bad should have
>>happened, but it did. He can't mount /home any more, he's on
>>the road away from his backups, and he needs his laptop today
>>to do some work.
>>
>>Can anyone here help? If you can, please respond both to
>>me and to onemorenut at gmail.com and keep me in the loop.
>>
>>Thanks so much...
>>
>>Mike
> 
> 
> Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/testdisk/
> 
> It can recover partition tables.

The table itself seems not to be damaged, but one of the
partitions seems not to have a valid FS on it now.

Mike
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