Re: Help! partition table!

["Hugo Ideler" <the_azaghal@hotmail.com>]

It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I hit 
the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference?

But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible to 
recover files deleted (not shreded)? Deleted files after all don't have an 
entry in the FAT anymore?

I also had some important data in my ~/Mail folder. Mail from my pop 
account, so it's not remotely stored. And I of course was stupid and lazy 
enough to not back things up.

So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :)

--Azaghal

> From: Johan Ehnberg <johan@ehnberg.net>
> To: Hugo Ideler <the_azaghal@hotmail.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Help! partition table!
> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 00:34:37 +0200
>
> Whoops...
> That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your last 
> one?
> A partition itself can be found again when it disappears from the 
> disklabel, but this is different.
> AFAIK, the data (or probably 99% of it) is still there, on your partition, 
> but there's no filesystem to tell you where to look.
> If you're talking about /etc/whatever files, a way of finding the data is 
> to read the raw partition and filter out something you remember.
> Something like 'cat /dev/hda2 |grep [whatever]' might give you some 
> answers. It takes time and gives only one line...
> Someone else might know the tools better that I do.
>
> But I strongly believe it's much easier to reinstall and remember how you 
> configured it.
>
> Also, before you do anything, you might want to listen to other people's 
> ideas too, first. :-)
>
> hth,
> /johan
-foot note: forgot to CC mailinglist!-

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