Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:

> It's the same machine...

Ouch.  Now that does hurt.

> Anyway, enough belly aching; I have to get back to it. I found an identical 
> model number drive in the office so I am going to try dd'ing it.

You don't need as disk.  Just dd to a file and attempt recovery from it 
while mounted loopback.  What you have sitting under the filesystem is 
irrelevant to the recovery attempt.

Rob

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