From: Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh!
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:49:43 +0600
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Have you only repartitioned your disk or also formatted it?

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jesper Jensen
<linux-ext4_mailinglist@elector.dk> wrote:
> 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 guy=
s can
> bare with me.
>
> Yesterday I accidentally did a repartition ad and mkfs.ext4 on the wr=
ong
> 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 anywher=
e. :-(
>
> 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 (eventuall=
y ended
> up using the -p option).
>
> I have also tried tools like magicrescue and foremost to recover my f=
iles,
> but no such luck.
>
> Can you guys recommend a good way to recover the files?
>
>
> Regards
> Jesper
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