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Whow! My disk is empty! My Linux is gone! If you have or fear to have one day or another such a problem, read this...

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Technical info
1. Disks
References
1. Authors
2. Most recent version

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Licence

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Legal stuff

Use GFDL licence please, unless you have a strong reason approved in the discussion list. If no licence paragraph is seen is the wikin page, GFDL is assumed, but it's much better to write it down explicitly, like done at the top of this document (and GFDL prescribe to set it there).

I am not responsible of any damage on any computer as a result of anyone reading this HOWTO. If you do any damage, it is YOUR fault, NOT MINE! Be careful when partitioning disks, and don't make any mistakes, because it can be fatal! Backup all your important data and check that everything you do is correct! What is described here worked on my computer, but it may or may not work on your computer. Although it should work for everyone, I can't guarantee anything. This is the last warning you get: BACKUP IMPORTANT DATA! Or, to put it concisely: Use at your own risk!

Technical info

Disks

A hard disk is made of sectors numbered from 0 to the max.

dmesg gives, for example:

hdb: ST34321A, 4103MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63

use to show code

(if you are aware of others, please e-mail the maintainer of this document)

References

Authors

It's very important than you give a mean to contact youn either using a e-mail or any google friendly way. best is your full name. Don't forhget to name the other authors (read the licence)

The author of this HOWTO is Jean-Daniel Dodin. I can be joined at My masqued e-mail or simply searching "Jean-Daniel Dodin" on Google :-).

My Web site is at [http://www.dodin.net].

I want to thank Rolf Klausen, who wrote the previous partition-rescue mini HOWTO. Even if I rewrote it almost entirely, he had first the good idea.

Every other member of the Linux community, and everybody who supports Linux and writes documentation and programs for Linux, and all the authors of the LDP, and virtually any person involved in anything which has to do with Linux. Particularly Linus B. Torvalds - he is The King !!!

I want also to thank Michail Brzitwa (see Web site in the text) for writing gpart !

Bryce Nesbitt <bryce at obviously dot com> did a very good job, "Linux's own info" is from him as are some minor enhancements.

Most recent version

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