Scott Thornley schrieb: > Anyone ? Any pointers to pertinent info ? Am I TSOL and should just go > away ? > > Regards, > Scott > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Jfs-discussion] recovery after format ? > Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:18:23 -0700 -----------------^ hm, didn't see that post...
> I just performed an installation of a new distribution on one my laptops > spare partitions. Unfortunately it looks like that as part of the > installation, one of the existing jfs partitions that was not set to be > re-formatted, inadvertantly was. A jfs_fsck reports no errors for this > partition, there are no files/directories in a directory listing. A i can't quite follow you - the installation completeted on an unformatted parition? how did the data got to the disk then? > search for various strings reveals the data is still there and not > zero'd out. I have backups of super-critical data, so this is tragic but > not disasterous. Still, I wouldn't mind devoting some time to attempting > a full recovery. if fsck_jfs reports no errors, then the fs seems to be ok and i guess the installation process must have screwed up in some way. > > I haven't been able to google up any jfs file recovery tools, but then > search is all about your search criteria, and I might not be using the > right ones. Would there also be a way to manually do a full or partial > recovery that wouldn't take until the heat death of the universe ? It's > a 10G partition with about 4G of data that'd I'd have to wade through. i am only aware of recovery tools for ext2/ext3 but have not come across similiar tools for jfs and others. cat & grep are the way to go here, but it's not funny for 10GB of data. i wish someone would correct me :-\ -- BOFH excuse #357: I'd love to help you -- it's just that the Boss won't let me near the computer. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
