Re: problems with partrition table

2003-11-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:28:36PM +0200, b g wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:49, Oron Peled wrote: > Sorry for the lame question, but what are magic numbers? Before working on the > raw device, I though it would be a good idea to know what I'm doing. Googling > for ["magic numbers" ext3

Re: problems with partrition table

2003-11-18 Thread Shachar Tal
b g wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:49, Oron Peled wrote: Sorry for the lame question, but what are magic numbers? Before working on the raw device, I though it would be a good idea to know what I'm doing. Googling for ["magic numbers" ext3 fdisk] leads to zillions mailing list archives, s

Re: problems with partrition table

2003-11-18 Thread b g
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:49, Oron Peled wrote: Sorry for the lame question, but what are magic numbers? Before working on the raw device, I though it would be a good idea to know what I'm doing. Googling for ["magic numbers" ext3 fdisk] leads to zillions mailing list archives, so if anyone

Re: problems with partrition table

2003-11-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any chance that I can recover my data from /home partition? > PS. During the installation, I did not make any changes to this partition I had similar problem (partition table mess) a long time ago (~8 years): * I had access

problems with partrition table

2003-11-18 Thread bgbg
[Disclaimer: I know that not backing up your data before major update is a bad idea. Don't tell me that, please] I've decided to install Mandrake 9.2 on my home computer. Before, I had a physical HD with the following partitions: hda1 small linux (with minimal mdk9.2 installed on it) (~1.5 G) h