Recovering a Partition

cov · 05-08-2013, 10:47 AM

I've done a silly thing....

I'm at the start of installing Slackware and the setup offered to configure the swap space. I clicked yes, before noticing that the partition number wasn't swap at all. I hit <CNTRL>C immediately, but the damage is done.

I'm downloading http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...p/RIPLinux.iso as we speak and intend to run testdisk.

Anything else?

eSelix · 05-08-2013, 11:24 AM

As I know only id of partition is changed when you choose to create swap. Testdisk should recover it without problems. You can try "fdisk" it has option to change id.

cov · 05-08-2013, 02:08 PM

Great!

Testdisk worked fine.

It just found the partition, prompted me to write the table, and my data reappeared.

Phew!