Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:03:33
Message-Id: 201004301202.39911.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Friday 30 April 2010 09:44:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > The data is still there, mke2fs just reset the superblock. Photorec
4 > will recover file contents from a filesystem like this. It only
5 > recovers the contents, not the metadata, so you'll end up with files
6 > with meaningless names, but as they are video files I suspect there
7 > are not too many of them and they are fairly easy to identify. At
8 > least it's less work than importing and editing them all again.
9
10 There's also a program that will attempt to link together the various
11 files that belong to each image (I assume video works in a similar way),
12 which greatly lessens the work
13
14 I don't remember its name at the moment, but Google ought to be able
15 to find it.
16
17 --
18 Rgds
19 Peter.