Comments on: /home partition recovered http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2006/09/22/home-partition-recovered/ random rantings Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:40:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Eric http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2006/09/22/home-partition-recovered/#comment-2563 Eric Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:49:14 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=361#comment-2563 I think the reason that the available tools couldn't find it may have been that it was actually an LVM logical volume. I don't see much reason for using LVM on my laptop, but the Fedora installer did that by default, and I didn't bother to change it. Fortunately the LVM clusters comprising the logical volume were all contiguous; otherwise I would have had to write a much more sophisticated program to try to find the LVM metadata (assuming that it hadn't been corrupted). Regular backups is clearly the correct solution, rather than spending lots of time hacking up new code for recovery. I think the reason that the available tools couldn’t find it may have been that it was actually an LVM logical volume. I don’t see much reason for using LVM on my laptop, but the Fedora installer did that by default, and I didn’t bother to change it. Fortunately the LVM clusters comprising the logical volume were all contiguous; otherwise I would have had to write a much more sophisticated program to try to find the LVM metadata (assuming that it hadn’t been corrupted).

Regular backups is clearly the correct solution, rather than spending lots of time hacking up new code for recovery.

]]> By: Tom Harrison http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2006/09/22/home-partition-recovered/#comment-2562 Tom Harrison Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:28:14 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=361#comment-2562 "I ended up writing a program to scan for..." Well, I'm impressed. The only time I had to recover a lost partition (after I screwed up the partition table somehow), parted found it. If it had not, I would have given up. “I ended up writing a program to scan for…” Well, I’m impressed. The only time I had to recover a lost partition (after I screwed up the partition table somehow), parted found it. If it had not, I would have given up.

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