Hi List! In an offlist reply someone recommended me ext4magic (see http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ext4magic ). Like magic it recovered complete directory hierarchies with filenames, timestamps, even ownership and permissions for more than 300GB of the deleted data. I can recommend this to everybody who accidently destroyed parts of his filesystem. In contrast to fsck ext4magic doesn't try to repair, but just extracts the data completely in read only mode (feelslike "tar xf" actually :).It's easier to use and understand and way more effective when it comesto recovery. ext4magic shouldn't be missing in any good recovery collection. Thanks to all helping me out in this case. Have a nice weekend, Rudolf. -- 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