No I idea about recovering it (if you get to know it, please tell it here please ;-)) but if you have enough free space on another partition do:
dd if=/dev/hda8 | bzip2 -9 -k > safe_copy_of_hda8.bz2 So you'll have a exact copy of byte map on that partition but compressed!!! If after trying to recover you don't get what you wanted and want to give it another try, just do: bunzip2 -k safe_copy_of_hda8.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hda8 The partition guess utility that David Johan talks about may be 'gpart' but in the case you did like in his case, I don't think you'll get too much out of the content recovery. Good luck!!! El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 09:27, Tony S. Sykes escribi�: > I have shot myself in the foot. To cut a long story short I have managed > to delete my /home file system, hda8. Is there any way of recovering > from this, as I have not backed up for 3 months. I use reiserfs on MDK > 9.0. I have seen an article on google that talks about recovering from > an ext2 removal, but I don't want to try it until I have had some other > input. > > PLEASE HELP. > > Tony. > > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have > received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or > disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes > or the postmaster <mailto:David.Hamnett-Taylor@;BCPSoftware.com> > immediately. > > The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not > necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless > specifically stated. > > Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their > attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) > to verify the integrity of such emails. > > > Business Computer Projects Ltd > BCP House > 151 Charles Street > Stockport > Cheshire > SK1 3JY > > Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 > Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 > Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/> > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia / \ Spain \ / |__ __| \/ _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versi�n: Webcam, voz, y mucho m�s �Gratis! Desc�rgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es
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