>Message: 4 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 23:53:41 +0800 (PHT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [plug] Is it possible to recover files after formatting a partition? >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Hi everyone. >Disaster city! This is a problem only I could have come across. And I did! =( >The short of the story is that I accidentally reformatted my /home partition and >I hadn't backed them up yet in a year! >Anyone ever tried recovering files from a partition after using mke2fs? Around >4.1GB of them? I'm sure the data is still there because I used 'less' on the >device to check and the data scrolled accross the screen. The thing is, with an >empty inode table, no tool I've used so far can find any files to recover. Please note I'm not an expert, I'm just a novice, Don't take my advice as gospel..... This is what I think might work, it may not work or there may be easier ways to do it available out there..... I'll take your word for it that you mannaged to use 'less' to display the old data on the newly formatted (logical format lucky you ...) hard disk partition. Hmmm..... If you were able to recognize the data as it flashed on the screen, are you refering to plain text data? if so I think you may be able to salvage it wholesale by redirectin the output of 'less' to a file (IMPORTANT!: put it in another partiton and not in the partion where you want to recover data from.You don't want to do more damage to the data in it right? ) then sort out the data from the file you created. >Any help towards a recovery, no matter how tedious, would be greatly >appreciated! (I'd say rewarded but I've got none to give. ;P ) Yup its tedious, you have to have a little extra space in another partition (say around >4.1GB) and a lot of patience....... I suspect this can also be don for binary files but I don't know how to read them, or sort them out when their all mixed up in one file. :-) Have fun! >Thanks. >Qpid >--------------------------------- >This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds... >--__--__-- _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
