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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bernhard |
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Auzinger<nordpolcamper@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> does anyone of you have some experience in recovering a wiped out ext4 |
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> partition? |
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> I accidentially ran "mkfs.ext4" on a ext4 partition for which I do not have |
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> a backup (I wanted to format sdg but instead I accidentially took sde :( ). |
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> Is there a way to recover the data in this case? |
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> Rgds |
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> Bernhard |
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Oh man, I'm really sorry to hear that. The first advice before trying |
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anything is to get another hard drive or partition and make a clone or |
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image of the partiton, in case attempting to repair it actually |
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damages it worse. |
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I don't know if ext4 writes its superblocks and other data in the same |
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place every time or if it randomizes it. If it's random, then maybe |
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the old data can still be found. I would try things like dumpe2fs, |
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fsck, testdisk to see if it can find some files from your formatted |
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partition. I don't know if ext4 is so similar to ext3 that perhaps |
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ext3 tools might be able to find something. I don't know of any |
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ext4-specific tools (other than fsck) |
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I suspect a total recovery is unlikely (unless you had a backup). |
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Good luck! |
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