On 03/11/2022 15:14, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 12:27, Ottavio Caruso naively wrote:
I have some spare space on my laptop (a rubbish Thinkpad E130) that was
originally meant for NetBSD, but I gave up on it due suspend/resume not
working.
This is how it looks from Debian:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1023999 1021952 499M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2 1024000 1226751 202752 99M EFI System >>> [EFI
partition]
/dev/sda3 1226752 1259519 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 1259520 51845119 50585600 24.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 51845120 124938239 73093120 34.9G NetBSD FFS
/dev/sda6 223012864 877277183 654264320 312G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda7 206057472 223012863 16955392 8.1G Linux swap
/dev/sda8 877277184 976773119 99495936 47.4G Linux filesystem >>>
]Debian /home partition]
/dev/sda9 124938240 206057471 81119232 38.7G Linux filesystem >>>
[Debian / root]
So I officially joined the club of idiots who don't back up their
partition table. I wanted to install OpenBSD to free space, instead I
must have overwritten the partition table (hopefully not formatting
the drive because I aborted soon after realizing the mistake). I have
attached two screenshots.
I don't mind reinstalling Windows and Linux but I have a 350GB fat32
partition with tons of videos and books that I'd like to recover.
I have tried using testdisk from cgsecurity but it cannot recover that
particular partition.
Any help will be appreciated.
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Ottavio Caruso
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Hi,
You're lucky enough to have the exact printout block by block of the
disk layout. I wouldn't want to do this in OpenBSD's fdisk, it'd be
easier with gparted on a Linux liveCD if you can. It can be done with
fdisk but it's not very userfriendly. Be sure to make that NetBSD
partition an OpenBSD one while you're at it so the installer finds it
right away.
Good luck!
Noth
