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From: lee <funnyvoice@××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:49:32
Message-Id: 4BDAC346.9080309@tlabs.ac.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone? by Stroller
1 Stroller wrote:
2 >
3 > On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:53, Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote:
6 >>> While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1"
7 >>> instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2
8 >>> seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount
9 >>> the drive. Is there a way to read the drive to get the data off or is
10 >>> it unrecoverable?
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> For all practical intents and purposes, and for all reasonable values of
14 >> "effectively", your data is effectively gone.
15 >>
16 >> Money, lots of money, could tip the sales in your favour.
17 >
18 > What? What?
19 >
20 > Photorec will recover the data.
21 >
22 >
23 > Stroller.
24 >
25 >
26 side note... i think we all have done this at some point...
27
28 F :P