Subject: Re: I just mkfs'd my backup!!
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/27/2002 18:42:05
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:39:10PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > 
> > If you didn't newfs the partition, but just did a partition which overwrote
> > this one then it's possible that some data are recoverable.
> > If you know the original size/offset, recreate a partition and see what fsck
> > can say about it.
> 
> Actually this MIGHT find some data provided you haven't written
> anything to the partition.
> 
> But any files could easily be trashed by the new inode table etc.

That's why I say "*some* data"

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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