On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jason Whittle wrote: > I managed to reformat my /usr/local partition (ext2; not backwards > compatible) and I was wondering > if there was any way to recover some of the data I lost by doing that. I > haven't written anything > to the partition since reformatting, so nothing's been zeroed except the very > highest-level stuff. > Is this sort of thing possible, or should I just remount it and start filling > it up again? >
I've never tried it myself, but you can find a HOWTO on it here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html Note that I found this with about two clicks by searching for "recovering deleted data from ext2" on Google. Take care, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ZonkerBooks.net/ -=- ICQ: 43599611 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
