Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263370AbTKFF4E (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:56:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263373AbTKFF4E (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:56:04 -0500 Received: from web21505.mail.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.16]:57693 "HELO web21505.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263370AbTKFF4C (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:56:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20031106055601.75420.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:56:01 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Gyazig Subject: undo an mke2fs !! To: tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 981 Lines: 32 Hi Ted and others, I created a new partition on my disk, and without noticing the change in the hdaX of the partition i did an mke2fs /dev/hdaX. :( Unfortunately it was my /home partition and was an ext3 partition earlier. Can anyone please advice on how to retrieve the old data. I read that mke2fs nukes all the meta information, so does that mean all inodes are destroyed and there is no hope for me ?!?!? i did a cat /dev/hdaX > /dev/hdaY, which was an empty partition earlier so that I can play around a bit. I tried couple of things with debugfs but coudn't go much far. thanks john __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/