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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1" |
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> instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2 |
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> seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount |
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> the drive. Is there a way to read the drive to get the data off or is |
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> it unrecoverable? |
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Before attempting anything I would clone the drive to a spare and then |
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attempt recovery on the clone. (because sometimes trying to fix it can |
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just make things worse). |
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You can try something like testdisk, and of course try fsck first. Or |
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one of many commercial programs such as those listed here which |
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probably do the same thing as testdisk: |
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http://unformat-ext2.qarchive.org/ |
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There's no simple "unformat" command or anything that I know of, |
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though. Sorry :( |
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