Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 24 18:43:15 UTC 2005


Hi all,

   I just made a royal screw up and I need some serious help!

   I meant to run 'fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1' and instead ran 'mkfs.ext3 
/dev/hda1'.

   Oh sh!t moment..

   I did this using Knoppix so the drive has not been touched yet. Is 
there a way to recover the file system?

Madison

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