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>

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