On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:20:30PM -0700, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > 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. If you really want some of your data back, you can run "strings" on the unmounted partition (strings /dev/hda1 > file). In that way you can save the contents of all text files on that partition. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - 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/
