VERY OT, But this guy really needs help

[Philip Trickett (List)]

This has saved me in the past:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

Worth its weight in gold...

Phil

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:16 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Over on the Debian lists is a guy who clobbered his partitions
> last night, late. I spent a few hours poring over his information
> trying to get things back for him, but couldn't. I used to be
> quite expert on how MSDOS uses partitions, but I'm not much on
> how Linux does it. I gave him just about my best effort, but
> AFAICT he's stuck. I can't see where anything bad should have
> happened, but it did. He can't mount /home any more, he's on
> the road away from his backups, and he needs his laptop today
> to do some work.
> 
> Can anyone here help? If you can, please respond both to
> me and to onemorenut at gmail.com and keep me in the loop.
> 
> Thanks so much...
> 
> Mike
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