From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: how screwed am I ? - lost 79160kB off of a May 2001 reiserfs partition to a swap :-( Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:24:18 +0400 Message-ID: <20030818062418.GD16183@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs@ied.com Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:44:16PM -0400, reiserfs@ied.com wrote: > I screwed myself - I've overwritten the first 79160kB of > a 38GB partition (fdisk says 38796975 blocks) with swap :-( So you overwrote 32M of journal and ~50M of metadata, some of the metadata should still be there, though. Since this is user error, we can only help you based on http://namesys.com/support.html terms. Or you can find the solution yourself. (I think several similar cases were described in this list some time ago). Bye, Oleg