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Recover partition table on Linux just after destroying it

At the time I want to repartition a disk connected to USB, I destroyed by inattention my system disk one. Testdisk save my life.

The killing error :

cfdisk /dev/sda => modification => write.

well, as it should never be the case before changing partitions. I didn’t saved my partitions before !! :)

Include forecd option that save incrementally the partition table in (c)fdisk sould be nice, this only take few octets and could save lot of datas.
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