On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 23:54 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > All those tools for ext3 come with patches, they are usable for ext4, > > theoretically. In practice 99% of your data will be lost. > > > > I still have 2 unmounted ext4 partitions since December 2011. I nearly > > couldn't recover anything, but sure, I got back some data. > > > > if that is the case do you mean i should shift from ext4 to ext3. > since i am using ext4 however there is no specific reason of using > ext4.
I don't know. I switched back to ext3 and then back back to ext4. AFAIK ext4 should be the better choice regarding to current kernels. Perhaps a recovery won't be better for ext3. IMO the best solution is to have separated backups on different HDDs if possible. Shit happens! > 20 years I never had serious trouble, but in the end of last year I had the maximum credible accident. - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336677132.5199.45.camel@precise
