Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

[William Park]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:43:15PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 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?

It's too late.  Unless you are willing to go through sector by sector.
It works if you know the content to look for.  But, recovering the
filesystem requires very expert knowledge of ext2.  

May I suggest, for the future, to get USB harddisks.

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