Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Recover files on ext4 partition
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:49:25
Message-Id: 200907091549.18731.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Recover files on ext4 partition by Bernhard Auzinger
1 On Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009, Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > does anyone of you have some experience in recovering a wiped out ext4
5 > partition?
6 >
7 > I accidentially ran "mkfs.ext4" on a ext4 partition for which I do not have
8 > a backup (I wanted to format sdg but instead I accidentially took sde :( ).
9 >
10 > Is there a way to recover the data in this case?
11 >
12 > Rgds
13 > Bernhard
14
15 try testdisk/magicrescue