-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Niki Hammler schrieb: > mke2fs -j /device > > Important is the "-j" switch. > > What happens without the "-j" switch? All superblocks and inodes > are overwritten. Is this true?? i don't think, that all inodes are overwritten. mkfs.?fs is pretty fast, so it's creating the superblock and the journal (-j) only. > However, can you tell me if it is theoretically possible to recover data > maybe even with meta info (file name)? > Then I would give my harddrive to a professional recover company. we had a case here, where *something* has corrupted our shiny RAID-5 ext3fs. also we felt safe having a RAID-5, a fsck has moved a lot to lost+found, leaving nothing in the normal dir-tree. we were still missing a lot important files. we then tried several ext2/ext3 recovery tools (e2undel, recover, playing with debugfs), but all seem to fail. we happend to have a windoze machine around and we had some more luck with a tool called "R-Linux": http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml and despite the usual "it's impossible to recover data from ext3" we were able to recover a lot of files, that didn't make it to lost+found. Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #405: Sysadmins unavailable because they are in a meeting talking about why they are unavailable so much. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA688TC/PVm5+NVoYRAmSxAKC9qtVDxepGudWnkgVQ5bj/WJ+cfwCgz4qG jbL6zBFgZHoHfDMa7shynlU= =LYB4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
