From: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com>,
Jesper Jensen <linux-ext4_mailinglist@elector.dk>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh!
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257518636.19442.8.camel@zwerg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091106140415.GA26342@mit.edu>
Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 09:04 -0500 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:57:14PM +0600, Alexey Salmin wrote:
> > I think the only thing I can recommend to you is to "grep for your
> > files and hope for the best" (c)
> > I don't know any automated way to restore files after complete
> > destroying of fs, but there always is grep and hexdump :)
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't much else that can be done, since the inode
> table has been zero'ed out.
Do _not_ever_ change the disk after crush or what ever you did with it.
Make an image of your partition (dd if=/dev/you_partition
of=backup_of_partition) and try testdisk (photoreck) and/or sleuthkit.
Alexey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-06 10:19 Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh! Jesper Jensen
2009-11-06 10:49 ` Alexey Salmin
2009-11-06 11:49 ` Jesper Jensen
2009-11-06 11:57 ` Alexey Salmin
2009-11-06 14:04 ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-06 14:39 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-06 16:01 ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-06 14:43 ` Alexey Fisher [this message]
2009-11-06 15:02 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-11-06 16:06 ` Jesper Jensen
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