Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:

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

As Taavi points out a reconstruction may be possible.

The tool dumpe2fs is provided for your convenience.  You are better off 
dding a copy of the filesystem and attempting recovery from the dd image, 
only going back to the disk to get new copies to try stuff on.

Can I just say that today we've seen a disappearing MySQL DB and a trashed 
filesystem.  Even on SAGE lists I see a call every couple of weeks for 
help with recovery.

There is no substitute for off-site backups for keeping away all sorts of 
ills.

Rob

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