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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Per Jessen <per@computer.org><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Wed 30-01-2013 14:57<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] Need help - partitioning foobar<br /><strong>To:</strong> mythtv-users@mythtv.org; <br />Craig Huff wrote:<br /><br />> Thanks for the feedback, but I need a little more info.<br />> <br />> I know it started at sector 63 and used the whole disk -- originally<br />> partitioned with gparted 0.5.1. Do I just use gparted again and<br />> format it as JFS using the whole disk as I did originally, or do I<br />> need to do something different to avoid wiping out the file<br />> definitions?<br />> <br /><br />Hi Craig<br /><br />It should be sufficient to recreate the partition exactly as it was. <br />You can even try mounting it first - <br /><br />mount -o offset=x,ro /dev/sdx /mnt<br /><br />x = starting sector times sectorsize <br /><br /><br /><br />-- <br />Per Jessen, Zürich (12.5°C)<br />http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland.<br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br /></blockquote><p>Failing that, download the Ultimate Boot CD - that has partition recovery tools on it. In fact I would be inclined to use the UBCD first before trying anything like re-creating the partition with gparted.</p><p> </p><p>Dave<br /> </p>
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