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From: Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap?
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:41:33
Message-Id: 5832A2FD-D94B-4F1F-AB9C-960747024482@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap? by n952162
1 > On 2020-01-16, at 02:30, n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
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3 > Does anyone have experience with this? Is it possible to a save an
4 > ext3/4 system destroyed by mkswap?
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9 Try app-admin/testdisk
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11 Get to a point where you know for sure nothing is writing to the disk (or would be) and make an image with dd, then leave the physical disk alone. Then start recovery.
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13 Andrew

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