When I added memory for a vmware virtual server and rebooted yesterday, I found a vm disk lost unfortunately. It is a terrible for a system administrator.
The server is a linux server (RHEL5u4).And it did not happened before .
From Google, someone figure out it by fdisk, and recreated partition table .But it is not suitable for my trouble .
In the last, I found a powerful recovery tools “TestDisk” which could fix the ntfs,fat,ext2/3 partition,including with
Recover deleted partition
Rebuild partition table
Rewrite Master boot record (MBR)
file undeleted
The newest version is “TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.11.3” .This Linux version of TestDisk & PhotoRec should work on any 2.6 i386 or x86_64 kernel . It’s a static version, the binary doesn’t depend on shared libraries.
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