On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Rudolf Zran wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I recently damaged an ext4 partition by accident (mistakenly forced > a RAID sync with another partition onto it, which I realized after > about 3% completion). As a result the beginning of the ext4 partition > seems to be overwritten with garbage and refuses to mount. > > As you might guess, I'd now like to get as most of my data back (from > the part which hasn't been overwritten, of course :)). > > Maybe somebody knows a good method to just "repair" the ext4-structure > from the remaining part of the partition?\ Have you tried just simply running e2fsck, specifying an alternate superblock? I'd do this by making a copy of the file system first, of course…. -- Ted -- 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
