From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: Ext4 newbie trying to recover its partition table Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:29:39 -0500 Message-ID: <20111127192939.GL5167@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Lucas Teixeira Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:59871 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514Ab1K0TaI (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:30:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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