From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lucas Teixeira <lucas@lucasteixeira.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 newbie trying to recover its partition table
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:29:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111127192939.GL5167@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEZOgh80gEP=oW=9adxN7HQHVFjHYJHaT=RKRxDyfUXOTfCGJQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 02:06:44PM -0200, Lucas Teixeira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For more than a year I've been trying to recover data from a harddisk
> of mine. I have really important personal files there, and I would
> like to recover it myself, as I don't know of any recovering service
> that I would trust to analyze ext4 partitions.
>
> I don't know if anyone here even has the time to read my diagnosis
> (pasted below).
>
> **I would like good resources and tips to learn ext4 structure and
> dive into e2fsprogs source code, in order to recover the files in my
> misteriously lost partitions.**
Have you tried using the program "gpart"? It's the go-to program for
recovering damaged partition tables in my book.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-27 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-27 16:06 Ext4 newbie trying to recover its partition table Lucas Teixeira
2011-11-27 19:16 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-11-27 19:29 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
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