Re: fsck ate my ext4 home partition, help!?

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On May 05, 2009  16:44 +0200, Marcel Partap wrote:
> > You did not take the dd image before the first e2fsck, hm?
> Well backing up files before trashing them is sooo unadventurous aint it.
> e2fsck really needs the ability to write all actions to an undo log file.
> By default. Hmmpf.

There is a feature in newer e2fsprogs that does create an undo log for
e2fsck, but the performance isn't necessarily great.  I don't know how
bad it gets, but maybe for the majority of people this would be an
acceptable alternative to the risk of major filesystem errors.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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