Re: Formatted/repartitioned wrong disk, arrgh!

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Theodore Tso wrote:
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:57:14PM +0600, Alexey Salmin wrote:
I think the only thing I can recommend to you is to "grep for your
files and hope for the best" (c)
I don't know any automated way to restore files after complete
destroying of fs, but there always is grep and hexdump :)

Unfortunately, there isn't much else that can be done, since the inode
table has been zero'ed out.

Sorry.  :-(

						- Ted

Well, if you repartitioned / moved the partition, then the new mkfs likely wouldn't have perfectly overwritten the old metadata structures, so if you can re-partition again and put the starting sector -back- at the original location, an e2fsck might have a fighting chance to find -something- ...

-Eric
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