CoBrA2168 wrote:Oh, that's great to hear. Really had nothing important on it, mainly was just to "mess around" with Linux (my very first Linux). Now I'm very familiar with Ubuntu and Solaris machines. I use both for a class at school. Test tomorrow on regular expressions, among other things! Anyways, digression...
I didn't even do much on that partition - the most notable thing was installing VLC media player, which with the right repositories isn't really that hard.
Sorry - I should have been clearer. When I said your partition was gone - what I meant was - your ability to access the partition is gone. It's still there - but unaccessible. You'll have to backup your drive, repartition/reformat it, and restore to recover the missing 10 gig.
I wrote a very detailed description of the procedure here:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7266&start=45#p37627Oddly enough - someone on the cbe-oss-dev list claims you can read the Linux sectors from a PC:
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-o ... 07263.htmlWhat this post means is that the Linux partition is more like a phantom drive.
To explain - for IBM PCs, there is a section of the disc reserved for partition tables. Say, for the sake of this explanation, it's sector 1. (Which it actually is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record)
On a PS3, that sector is not PC style, so a PC can't read it. There is no PC partition table at offset 446. Whatever is there is Sony proprietary - or encrypted - or both.
However - according to this post, if you format for Linux, the last sectors of the hard disc are striped like a drive. So - if you copy those end sectors, using the dd command, to a new disc starting at sector 1 - you have a bootable Linux disc. You apparently don't have to do this from PS3 Linux either - regular Linux can offset and dd to a new drive.
That's extremely facinating to me - I'd always heard the PS3 Linux sectors were encrypted along with the drive. This might explain why the PS3 always had such bad OtherOS partitioning options - if it's this brute force of a method, it might not really be manipulating the PS3's internal partitioning very intelligently.
Cheers,
Paul