David G. Miller wrote:
If you just want to confirm that some data is still there, you might try something like:
- Boot from any Linux live CD (knoppix, Fedora 7, etc.).
- Open a command window.
- Assuming this is the only hard drive and it's /dev/hda:
dd if=/dev/hda | grep 'some *short* string that should be present'
- If your string survived, you should see something like "binary file
matches'.
I wonder how difficult it would be to recognize a BR? Each logical volume (nothing to do with LVM) should have a BR on its first sector.
Mike