From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marcel Partap" Subject: Re: fsck ate my ext4 home partition, help!? Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 16:44:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20090505144436.125410@gmx.net> References: <20090504131128.135100@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Kujau Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:40144 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752912AbZEEOon (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 10:44:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Have you checked /proc/mounts? mtab could be stale, lsof not seeing=20 > everything and the "empty mountpoint" could be some other mount on to= p of=20 > /home. Well how did that happen. It indeed still shows up there: /dev/sdd4 /home ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=3Dcontinue,user_xattr= ,data=3Dwriteback 0 0 Which btw means this actually is an ext3 volume, confirmed by fstab. Ho= w did i miss this. Fo0 bar! >=20 > > previous run of e2fsck with the -n was showing a bunch of stuff to = fix,=20 > Do you still have that e2fsck output? > > revealed the havoc that was done: ls -laR showed abundant I/O error= s,=20 > Again: error messages would be helpful. Sending you the screen output buffer in a minute. > You did not take the dd image before the first e2fsck, hm? Well backing up files before trashing them is sooo unadventurous aint i= t. e2fsck really needs the ability to write all actions to an undo log = file. By default. Hmmpf. > Now that you=20 > have a backup: a few days ago a tool called "extundelete"[0] has been= =20 > annunced on ext3-users, maybe that can be of help recovering your fs. Going to let it loose on the partition and have a go, hopefully i don't= have to free another 300gig for it to recover the files... > e2fsprogs-1.41.5 has been released recently, you might want to give i= t a=20 > shot. Hmm will have a look at the changelog and recompile, thx for the notice= =2E > Christian. > Perfect Forward Secrecy is when Bruce Schneier whispers something in = your > ear. Thx so much for your time and effort to provide with a new mission brie= fing. On to recovery and BEYOND!!! marcel ;) --=20 Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger geh=F6rt? Der kann`s mit all= en: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html