Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:43:41 -0400, dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount the drive. Is there a way to read the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread KH
Am 30.04.2010 10:44, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:43:41 -0400, dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread Stroller
On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:14:45 +0200, KH wrote: The data is still there, mke2fs just reset the superblock. Photorec will recover file contents from a filesystem like this. It only recovers the contents, not the metadata, so you'll end up with files with meaningless names, but as they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 April 2010 09:44:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: The data is still there, mke2fs just reset the superblock. Photorec will recover file contents from a filesystem like this. It only recovers the contents, not the metadata, so you'll end up with files with meaningless names, but as they

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread lee
Stroller wrote: On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now

[gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread dhk
While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount the drive. Is there a way to read the drive to get the data off or is it unrecoverable?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount the drive. Is there a way to read the drive to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread dhk
On 04/29/2010 06:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't mount the drive. Is there a way