Chrisian,
The installation formatted a partition that wasn't supposed to be
touched. And installed onto the correct target partition.
David,
Thanks, I'll look at sleuthkit.
Regards,
Scott
Christian Kujau wrote:
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 :-\
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