It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference?
Well, if fsck can find something on your drive (=inodes from the earlier filesystem), you might get something.
There is a slim chance that this happens, if the first and second filesystems were a) the exact same size and b) ext3.
And, the user files are more likely to be at the end of the drive than files written during installation.
But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible to recover files deleted (not shreded)? Deleted files after all don't have an entry in the FAT anymore?
Well, if they can be recovered, they obviously have an entry somewhere. That could be a) RAM b) some other cahce c) backup FATs d) FAT (marked as deleted). Dunno exactly.
I also had some important data in my ~/Mail folder. Mail from my pop account, so it's not remotely stored. And I of course was stupid and lazy enough to not back things up.
So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :)
As a last resort, you might try to destroy the beginning of the fs, which seemed to be the case in the swap-recover case. fsck might find something after mkswap for example.
Knoppix rules for this purpose. (And you'll get a great linux show-off distro, too! :-) )
Other than this, I believe that you have learnt the same lesson as many others (including me). If you're intrested, I can give you some simple backup scripts that I use.
Check http://www.ehnberg.net/johan/files/scripts and get rsync. Placing them in /etc/cron.daily makes everything automatic.
hth, /johan
--Azaghal
-foot note: forgot to CC mailinglist!-From: Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hugo Ideler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! partition table! Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 00:34:37 +0200
Whoops...
That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your last one?
A partition itself can be found again when it disappears from the disklabel, but this is different.
AFAIK, the data (or probably 99% of it) is still there, on your partition, but there's no filesystem to tell you where to look.
If you're talking about /etc/whatever files, a way of finding the data is to read the raw partition and filter out something you remember.
Something like 'cat /dev/hda2 |grep [whatever]' might give you some answers. It takes time and gives only one line...
Someone else might know the tools better that I do.
But I strongly believe it's much easier to reinstall and remember how you configured it.
Also, before you do anything, you might want to listen to other people's ideas too, first. :-)
hth, /johan
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