Re: ran mkreiserfs and erased my ext2 partition!!!
Patrick House wrote in linux.debian.user:
> I ran
> $ mkreiserfs /dev/hda6
> instead of /dev/hda5 (which was a blank partition) and it overwrote my
> ext2 parition with all my backup data without any sort of confirmation.
> Is there any way at all to recover this? If i just convert it again to an
> ext2 filesystem can I use Midnight Commander's undelete function since the
> inodes shouldnt have been overwritten? Help?
e2fsck should be able to recover most of your files.
Still, it doesn't beat putting back your backup (you do have one,
right?)
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