[TriLUG] Filesystem recover (or: I....am a big dummy)

[Robby Dermody]

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1997/1997-49/0569.html

Doesn't look good, at least from this post. :(

You might try to give looking at the raw data on the drive a try:
http://www.praeclarus.demon.co.uk/tech/e2-undel/html/howto.html

With FAT unformatting/undeleting is rather simple, from what I understand of
ext2 and other similar filesystems, it's not.

Robby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney" <alchemist at darkcanvas.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Filesystem recover (or: I....am a big dummy)


> Let me start off by sayig I'm a dumba$$.
>
> I wanted to use ext3 on my laptop.So, I build a kernel, update the
> ext2 filesystem tools, and boot into single user mode.
>
> Let's see, how to creat the journal? mke2fs -j /dev/*** right?
>
> Wrong.
>
> I admit, I should have used tune2fs -j /dev/***, and my nice blank
> /home partition shows it.
>
> Question :
>
> Is there any way to undo a mke2fs? Can I get my .muttrc, .emacs, and
> mail/ directory back?
>
> And, god forbid, the code I had been working on that wasn't ready to
> be put into the public CVS repository just yet.
>
> Help!!!
>
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