EMERGENCY: filesystem recovery. non destructive

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

sorry guys. this is really bad. I had a partition /dev/sda6 which was ext3 . i accidentally ran mkfs.ext3 again. and now my partition table is back to normal showing all 7 gigs. but all the files are gone! how can i bring back the files?!

Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:00 am Post subject:

1. Don´t touch this partition
2. Make a complete dd backup of that disk
3. Check out these search results: http://www.google.de/linux?hl=de&q=%2Bext3+%2Bfile+%2Brecovery&btnG=Suche&meta=

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

touch.. i've tried a few things on it, but nothing did anything to it. wats a dd backup? i know the files are still there i just need to redo the (mft?) also should i delete the partition again? so there wont be a empty mft tree? do u think testdisk would work?

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

i've tried different programs such as r-studio and stellar phoenix linux. none of them work. all they see is the new 'lost and found' folder and nothing else. i think this is because there is a new journal?

MikeRS · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 71

Do not mount the partition, try running PhotoRec on it

Sorry, but all the inode tables are now cleared because of a new filesystem. Your best hope is probably PhotoRec, it will probably recover most files you want, provided they were unfragmented

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

tried photorec. no good either. yeah i figured everything is hopeless. so might as well hang myself and do a full recompile eh

pingu · Retired Dev Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 11

You might want to give testdisk a go before you give up.

Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:49 am Post subject:

OR this: http://foremost.sourceforge.net/

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

i've tried testdisk. its not a deleted partition. i've recovered my partition table. its the whole fs that was reformatted