In message <20030825211408.DDBFA39BA1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Eddy" writes: [...] > Hi Ted! > > I just wanted to publicly thank you for your suggestion to try 'mke2fs > -S'. After making a backup of the trashed partition with 'dd', and not > making any progress using any other programs, I finally got up the nerve > to try your suggestion. After it re-wrote the superblocks and group > descriptors, I ran 'e2fsck -y' and it complained about a _LOT_ of things. > It didn't look good, but I figured I had nothing left to lose. > > After it was done, I mounted up the filesystem and 'ls' showed nothing > but 'lost+found'. Inside that dir, however, were a bunch of files and > directories with numbered names, and after a little searching, I was able > to find some of the important files that I thought were lost forever! So > far, everything I've looked at it is intact! I'm afraid I didn't fare as well. After my mke2fs -S and "fsck -y" I got <10% the files I had originally. A "grep -r" for some files I was looking for turned up nothing. Erez. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
