[GLLUG] Ext2 recovery

[Ben Pfaff]

Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> writes:

> On Monday 09 September 2002 15:05, after a long battle with technology, 
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> writes:
> > > First, ZIP disks are always partitioned, so /dev/hdX is not
> > > right.
> >
> > This is not necessarily the case.  You don't have to partition
> > hard drives if you don't want to, and in the same way you don't
> > have to partition Zip disks.  You just mkfs /dev/hdX instead of
> > /dev/hdXN.
> 
> True, but consider that all ZIP disks used in DOS/Windows machines must 
> be partitioned.

I didn't know that.  I haven't used Zip disks for years and
hadn't used them from DOS or Windows, just Linux and Irix.
Whaddaya know, learn something new every day.

> Or if the partition table is munged.  I remember some 'DozeNT HFS driver 
> that managed to mangle the partition table of a FAT16 ZIP disk when 
> used, leading to an interesting report from "fdisk -l /dev/hdd".  Who 
> knew a ZIP disk could have 4 "unknown" or Novell partitions of about 
> 1.4G each?  A long session with dd and dosfsck followed.

I'm working on a project right now where we have lots of very
big, very sparse files.  I have directories with a dozen or more
2 GB files that take up only a few hundred kBs of disk space...
But partitions are different.
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