Hi, > > > So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a > > backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 > > for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make that > > post 'oh shit' backup, your chance of recovering yourself went exponentially > > down and the price of getting someone else to get your stuff went > > exponentially up. If this is business, its possible your insurance might > > cover some of the cost (donno). > > Price is fine with me, the problem is that there is no such company I > know of in Turkey. Any suggestions? > > > If the data isn't worth money but you'd still like it back ... > > The data is important for me and worths money. Just an additional remark: with each time you mount the new partition write-enabled, you decrease the probability to recover your data (as you're going to change the contents of the disk more and more). So: ONLY mount it read-only and the safest thing would be to play only on a copy of the partition:
- add another disk with more than 350GB free space (e.g. mounted to /mnt/) - copy your damaged partition there: (but verify twice that /mnt/partition.dd won't be generated on your destroyed partition :-)) dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/partition.dd - remove /dev/sda from your system ... then, "partition.dd" will be a 350GB file containing all data from your original partition sda1. You can now try to recover data from this file -- without risk to accidentally destroy your original partition. In order to recover the data, you could have a look at the Debian Forensics packages http://qa.debian.org/[email protected] however, I don't know which tools are available for XFS, I only tried it for ext2/3 sometimes. Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110704123740.GA25392@axel
