Comments on: /home partition recovered https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2006/09/22/home-partition-recovered/ miscellaneous musings and random rantings Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: Eric https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2006/09/22/home-partition-recovered/comment-page-1/#comment-2563 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.

]]> By: Tom Harrison https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2006/09/22/home-partition-recovered/comment-page-1/#comment-2562 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.

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