Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:24:22AM +0400, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 20:17, Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote: > > Hi. I had a reiserfs (3.6.11 from debian unstable) partition and I made a > > 'mkfs.vfat -F 32' on it. Is there any chance of getting the data from the > > old reiserfs partition? > > > > I have not written onto it since, and mkfs.vfat performed it's duties very > > promptly, so I guess it just wrote something "small" to the beginning of > > the partition. (The partition is about 100GB so I would have noticed if > > it had done some serious formatting on it) > > > > Maybe some dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=... magic or what? > > > > Tommi Uimonen > > Hi Tommi, > > this was the user mistake and we provide the support for such in terms of > our www.namesys.com/support.html page. theres no easy way around, but i think you should
1. backup the partiution with dd. and then... try to recreate superblock and then fsck with rebuild-tree. altough i'm not vitaly and not expert there -- "the liberation loophole will make it clear.." lex lyamin
