[colug-432] testdisk is a lifesaver!

[Steve Roggenkamp]

Thanks for this.  This sounds like a great program to have in your back
pocket for situations like this.  Glad to hear it recovered your original
partitions.

Steve


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I finally got around to putting an SSD in my laptop.  This meant that I
> now have a 640GB hard disk that I could put into an external enclosure, so
> I did so.
>
> But alas, the partitioning on this 640GB drive was inconvenient.  It had a
> 500MB boot partition, a 550GB /home partition, and 85GB / partition.  I
> wanted to be able to use most of the 650GB as one contiguous filesystem.
> So, I deleted the third (85GB) partition and did the simple fdisk trick of
> deleting the second partiton and then re-creating it with the same
> beginning cylinder and a different ending cylinder.  I did this and wrote
> the partition table to disk.
>
> Strangely, it wasn't automounting.  I then tried to mount /dev/sdb2 and it
> gave me the dreaded "You must specify filesystem type" message.  Drat!  I
> tried to re-create the exact structure as before via fdisk, but that didn't
> work either.  The problem was that the boundaries between partition 1 and
> partition 2 were not on cylinder boundaries... so instead of beginning on
> sector 26, it began on sector 25.5.
>
> Not sure how to get out of this, I did some Google-FU and found a program
> called testdisk.  Supposedly, this would re-create your partition table for
> you.  And indeed it did!  I deleted all of the partitions via fdisk.
> Testdisk scanned the entire disk and re-created the original partition
> table, and all three partitions magically re-appeared.
>
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