From: Alexey Fisher Subject: Re: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh! Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1257518636.19442.8.camel@zwerg> References: <4AF3F82D.50105@elector.dk> <87a8dc10911060249i16b6da5t21e916811938e5b5@mail.gmail.com> <4AF40D60.1080503@elector.dk> <87a8dc10911060357r27131f36r3351497b38e18a39@mail.gmail.com> <20091106140415.GA26342@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexey Salmin , Jesper Jensen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55029 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757417AbZKFOnx (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:43:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091106140415.GA26342@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 09:04 -0500 schrieb Theodore Tso: > 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. Do _not_ever_ change the disk after crush or what ever you did with it. Make an image of your partition (dd if=/dev/you_partition of=backup_of_partition) and try testdisk (photoreck) and/or sleuthkit. Alexey