Have you only repartitioned your disk or also formatted it? On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jesper Jensen <linux-ext4_mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First of all I know this isn't a development or bug related question, but > I'm running out of ideas on how to rescue my files, so I hope you guys can > bare with me. > > Yesterday I accidentally did a repartition ad and mkfs.ext4 on the wrong > data disk, ARRGH! I thought it was an empty disk, but nooo it was one > containing a lot of data that I don't really have a backup of anywhere. :-( > > I've tried various fsck -f -b <backup superblocks> but it looks like I might > have made a royal fuckup and overwritten/erased every single backup > superblock. :-( > > As far as I recall the first time I ran fsck it said something about the > blocks being empty and asked me to accept a bunch of times (eventually ended > up using the -p option). > > I have also tried tools like magicrescue and foremost to recover my files, > but no such luck. > > Can you guys recommend a good way to recover the files? > > > Regards > Jesper > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
