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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesper Jensen <linux-ext4_mailinglist@elector.dk>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh!
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:04:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091106140415.GA26342@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8dc10911060357r27131f36r3351497b38e18a39@mail.gmail.com>

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.

Sorry.  :-(

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 14:04 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 [this message]
2009-11-06 14:39         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-06 16:01           ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-06 14:43         ` Alexey Fisher
2009-11-06 15:02           ` Greg Freemyer
2009-11-06 16:06             ` Jesper Jensen

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