From: Alexey Salmin Subject: Re: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh! Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:57:14 +0600 Message-ID: <87a8dc10911060357r27131f36r3351497b38e18a39@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AF3F82D.50105@elector.dk> <87a8dc10911060249i16b6da5t21e916811938e5b5@mail.gmail.com> <4AF40D60.1080503@elector.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jesper Jensen Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:54165 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751922AbZKFL5b convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:57:31 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so1061400bwz.21 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:57:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4AF40D60.1080503@elector.dk> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 :) On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Jesper Jensen wrote: > Well, I did a mkfs, so as far as I haven't erased the entire content = of the > disk. > > Maybe I should mention that the ext4 partition in question is running= on > inside a ESXi with the physical disk formattet to VMFS and mounted in= my > virtual machine (Ubuntu). > > It was the physical disk that got formatted by ESXi and I then recrea= ted the > virtual disk and made a new ext4 filesystem on top of that. > > A bit complicated yea, hence why I accidentally used the wrong disk. = :-( > > > Regards > Jesper > > Alexey Salmin wrote: >> >> Have you only repartitioned your disk or also formatted it? > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html