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sean finney wrote: >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:17:56PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > >>Is there any way to undo an errant mkfs.ext3? When deleting some other >>partitions, I hadn't noticed that what was once hde3 had been made hde2 >>upon exiting cfdisk. I executed mkfs on the wrong partition. Haven't >>written anything else to it. Is there anyway to recover the data? >> >> > >yes, but probably not the filesystem itself. first things first, take >a dd of the partition and hold onto it somewhere. then, take a look >at the coroners toolkit/lazarus to see what you can grab off of the >disk. there's a good chance there will be recoverable data, but it will >definitely take a large amount of time, so it's up to you to decide >whether or not it's a worthwhile effort ;/ > > Sean, should I use lazarus or unrm? This is a 26 GB partition that had about 23 GB of data at the time and I don't have that kind of space elsewhere. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________
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