oh dear... Where to start? I don't know who told you that mke2fs could convert partitions while saving the data on them (which is what I'm assuming you're trying to do), but it cannot. mke2fs as a utility only performs one function; format the requested partition into an ext2 filesystem. In the same vein, mkdosfs only formats the partition as a Fat16 (dos) partition. If you haven't caught on thus far, let me point out that I've been using the word "format" and not "convert". Any data on the partition you have formated is gone, forever. Especially since it was formatted not once, but thrice, in 2 different formats. Boy do I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Sorry. roo aka. Benjamin Krueger ----- Original Message ----- From: "linux newbie" <cybil@ertl.ics.tut.ac.jp> To: "Kernelnewbie ML" <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 12:15 PM Subject: mke2fs > I have quite a big problem. > > i executed mke2fs on my dos partition,and > couldnt open the files from dos. > i became desperate, trying to change the > file system back to dos so i executed > mkdosfs. didn't work. i could access my hd but > no files were recognized. > > so i tried mke2fs again. > now i couldn't access the c drive anymore under > dos. i know the files are still there > somewhere. is there somebody outside who know > how to recover them? > > please help! > thanks a lot > - > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies > Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ > - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
