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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:47:49
Message-Id: EE929A9B-99CC-406A-83E7-8E03095C0845@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone? by Alan McKinnon
1 On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:53, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote:
4 >> While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1"
5 >> instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2
6 >> seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't
7 >> mount
8 >> the drive. Is there a way to read the drive to get the data off or
9 >> is
10 >> it unrecoverable?
11 >
12 >
13 > For all practical intents and purposes, and for all reasonable
14 > values of
15 > "effectively", your data is effectively gone.
16 >
17 > Money, lots of money, could tip the sales in your favour.
18
19 What? What?
20
21 Photorec will recover the data.
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23
24 Stroller.

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