Punt it to GUI-land.. The distros can surely come up with a GUI for reformatting that includes a safety net. "Are you really sure?" and "keep filesystem snapshot" could be done there. On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:48, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:04:36PM -0400, Paul Raines wrote: > > > > I know there is no straightforward way to recover deleted files on > > an ext3 file system, but is there any way to recover from an > > accidental mke2fs? > > > > Not really, no. The inode table gets complete wiped, so unless you > ran e2image beforehand, there really isn't a way, short of searching > each data block looking for specific files of interest. > > I've considered trying to make mke2fs run e2image beforehand, but the > hard part is (a) figuring out where to put e2image file afterwards, > and (b) it would slow down mke2fs significantly. > > However, as more civilians start using Linux, this sort of thing will > probably become painfully more common, so maybe we will need to add > more idiot-proofing to mke2fs... > > - Ted > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
