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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap?
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 11:31:53
Message-Id: 5E22EC9E.3090804@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap? by Andrew Udvare
1 On 16/01/20 07:41, Andrew Udvare wrote:
2 >
3 >> On 2020-01-16, at 02:30, n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> Does anyone have experience with this? Is it possible to a save an
6 >> ext3/4 system destroyed by mkswap?
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>
10 >
11 > Try app-admin/testdisk
12 >
13 > 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.
14 >
15 Not that I know any gory details, but if mkswap is ALL that you have
16 done, then probably it's just destroyed the ext header at the start of
17 the partition.
18
19 If you can get hold of the alternate (backup) header, then you should be
20 able to restore the filesystem.
21
22 And I would VERY MUCH echo Andrew's advice to make a dd image and work
23 on that!
24
25 Cheers,
26 Wol

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