-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 That worked slick. I found the start and end of the partitions I needed to fix. As it turns out I hosed my NTFS metadata by overextending the OpenBSD partition. I'm making a zipslack SuperDisk and use that with the Coroner's Toolkit to extract what I can from the raw disk. Bummer. Thanks for the help, it saved me a lot of trouble. Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:10:15PM -0600, Joshua b. Jore wrote: > > So I messed up though I haven't decided exactly how yet. The net solution > > I need is to find the start/end of an NTFS5 partition, then a ext2 > > partition. Do you folks know of any strings I can search for that indicate > > whether I've found the right place or not? Any automated tools would be > > nice since it's darn timeconsuming otherwise. > > gpart - Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions > > That's from Debian's package list, but I'm sure you could find it on > freshmeat or sourceforge if you're not a debianite. > > Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions > Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a > PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is > damaged, incorrect or deleted. > . > It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and > sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical. > It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them > (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). > . > The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly > believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk > device. > . > Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: > . > * BeOS filesystem type. > * FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning > scheme used on Intel platforms. > * Linux second extended filesystem. > * MS-DOS FAT12/16/32 "filesystems". > * IBM OS/2 High Performance filesystem. > * Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen). > * Linux swap partitions (versions 0 and 1). > * The Minix operating system filesystem type. > * MS Windows NT/2000 filesystem. > * QNX 4.x filesystem. > * The Reiser filesystem (version 3.5.X, X > 11). > * Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning > scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels. > * Silicon Graphic's journalling filesystem for Linux. > . > Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules. > > > -- > When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists > have already won. - reverius > > Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8DQ6rfexLsowstzcRAtoHAKDk6PDxGXEUsW6iKXvcpf32XVxK9QCfW15D c2TFJ0g8+/JMcPLTT2wO1kQ= =1fgk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----