Re: [PLUG] "unerase" for linux ext3?

[brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

bergman@merctech.com wrote:

> I mounted the disk onto another (working) linux box, and wrote some perl to walk
> through the unmounted disk, searching for binary data that matched the beginning
> of a disk partition. This allowed me to recover the two partitions (~70GB of
> data) on the disk as filesystem images onto the host machine. I then mounted
> those as loopback images and wrote the data to new disks.
>

doesn't gpart do essentially the same thing? or does it not play nicely
with raid?

-- 
Brent Saner
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