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From: Jesper Jensen <linux-ext4_mailinglist@elector.dk>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh!
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:19:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF3F82D.50105@elector.dk> (raw)

First of all I know this isn't a development or bug related question, 
but I'm running out of ideas on how to rescue my files, so I hope you 
guys can bare with me.

Yesterday I accidentally did a repartition ad and mkfs.ext4 on the wrong 
data disk, ARRGH! I thought it was an empty disk, but nooo it was one 
containing a lot of data that I don't really have a backup of anywhere. :-(

I've tried various fsck -f -b <backup superblocks> but it looks like I 
might have made a royal fuckup and overwritten/erased every single 
backup superblock. :-(

As far as I recall the first time I ran fsck it said something about the 
blocks being empty and asked me to accept a bunch of times (eventually 
ended up using the -p option).

I have also tried tools like magicrescue and foremost to recover my 
files, but no such luck.

Can you guys recommend a good way to recover the files?


Regards
Jesper

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 10:19 Jesper Jensen [this message]
2009-11-06 10:49 ` Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh! 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
2009-11-06 15:02           ` Greg Freemyer
2009-11-06 16:06             ` Jesper Jensen

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