Re: Lost partition and segfaulted with parted...

[Howell Tam]

> Ah, I see where you got confused.  You thought because you pressed
> cancel, you were cancelling the deletion, but you were actually
> cancelling the process of informing the kernel about changes.
> When you retried, you deleted another partition.
> 
> This is all very unfortunate, but I can't think of a way to improve
> the user interface to fix this problem.
> 
> Perhaps the partition table should be displayed after each command?
> Or perhaps each time the table is modified?  I guess that doesn't fit
> with the unix tradition, but perhaps that's less important.  Comments?

        Ahha. Fair enough :)

        I guess. Maybe more messages after every action.

        Let's say. rm 7, when it's done. A message like "parition 7
        deleted successfully" or something.


> 
> Right, it should be easy to recover :)
> 
> This is the partition, right?
> 
> > 8      19579.250  39079.995  logical   ext3



        Yes. Ok. I rmed the hfs partition, and then did a rescue, but it
        doesn't seem to help. I guess what's happened was, that
        partition was still mounted while it's being deleted. And so
        the fs is screwed. Yeah?

        Log:

Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is      
4982/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) rescue                                                           
Start? 19579                                                              
End? 39083.625                                                            
Information: A hfs logical partition was found at 19583.404Mb ->
39075.625Mb.
Do you want to add it to the partition table?
Yes/No/Cancel? n                                                          
Information: A hfs logical partition was found at 19588.130Mb ->
39075.625Mb.
Do you want to add it to the partition table?
Yes/No/Cancel? n                                                          
Information: A hfs logical partition was found at 19588.184Mb ->
39075.625Mb.
Do you want to add it to the partition table?
Yes/No/Cancel? n                                                          
Information: A hfs logical partition was found at 19593.179Mb ->
39075.625Mb.
Do you want to add it to the partition table?
Yes/No/Cancel? n                                                          
(parted)                                                                  


> Obviously, this was never going to work... it overlaps!
> 
> But, it shouldn't seg-fault.  I found/fixed that bug now.  Thanks :)

        Yay! :)


        So is there anything I could at least rescue some data in that
        partition?

        Thanks again.


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