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Ok, I have just deleted the partitions of this computer's hard drive in cfdisk. I thought I was doing it to my thumb drive, but I forgot to put /dev/sda in the command. So I'm not sure if it's actually removed them or if I should not reboot until I hear from someone or what. Because it is still working now.
Nothing will have happened unless you did a W(rite) command to commit the changes.
If you have committed the changes, use testdisk to recover the situation.
Ok, using that tool apparently kept my files intact, but the superblock was missing or corrupt once I rebooted. Since it was only a temporary 6GB drive with almost nothing on it anyway (1TB backup drive ), I just reinstalled slackware. But I also got my video card and integrated wireless to work correctly, so it's all good. I appreciate the advice, and testdisk seems quite versatile.
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Deleted my partitions in cfdisk...
I thought I was doing it to my thumb drive, but I forgot to put /dev/sda in the command. So I'm not sure if it's actually removed them or if I should not reboot until I hear from someone or what. Because it is still working now.
), I just reinstalled slackware. But I also got my video card and integrated wireless to work correctly, so it's all good. I appreciate the advice, and testdisk seems quite versatile.
