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On 11/04/2023 14:32, Dmitry Morozovsky= wrote:
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I suppose sysutils/testdisk =
will be useful for recovering, as most of actual=20
file systems are left intact


Thanks, I forgot that the utility has this capability.

This reignites hope of recovery without a third party.

Re: my question to Warner about preciseness, now I realise, the answer is almost certainly "Yes", because the manual page for gpart(8) notes that the 'restore' argument/command, which does not affect the content of partitions, can be preceded by destruction (-F).=C2=A0

Also, thanks to the people who responded privately.

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