From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Restoring filenames from partly damaged ext4-filesystem Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:02:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1328804993.34330.YahooMailNeo@web132403.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Theodore Tso , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , "debian-user@lists.debian.org" To: Rudolf Zran Return-path: Received: from DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-3.MIT.EDU ([18.9.25.14]:51193 "EHLO dmz-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752160Ab2BJSCG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:02:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1328804993.34330.YahooMailNeo@web132403.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Rudolf Zran wrote: > Hi everybody! >=20 > I recently damaged an ext4 partition by accident (mistakenly forced > a RAID sync with another partition onto it, which I realized after > about 3% completion). As a result the beginning of the ext4 partition > seems to be overwritten with garbage and refuses to mount. >=20 > As you might guess, I'd now like to get as most of my data back (from > the part which hasn't been overwritten, of course :)). >=20 > Maybe somebody knows a good method to just "repair" the ext4-structur= e > from the remaining part of the partition?\ Have you tried just simply running e2fsck, specifying an alternate supe= rblock? I'd do this by making a copy of the file system first, of course=85. -- Ted -- 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