Hi, sorry for replying directly to you and not to the mailing list, but I read through gmane, so technically I'm not a list member. Feel free to reply to the mailing list.
> On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: >> While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1" >> instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake >> (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. > For all practical intents and purposes, and for all reasonable > values of "effectively", your data is effectively gone. > Money, lots of money, could tip the sales in your favour. > This is why you made backups. You did make backups, right? Thinking about that, do you know if there's a way to make backups of the superblock to a file? In cases like this it might be possible to recover access to most of the data, if one is quick... Ciao TCr -- Tobias Reichl <n...@c82.de>