Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:54:34AM +0300, yazicivo wrote: > Hi, > > I have an XFS partition, which is > > 1) Mistakenly quick formatted as FAT16. 2) At first, I couldn't see > in "fdisk -l" that it is set to FAT16, instead of Linux. Hence tried > to fix it with xfs_recover. xfs_recover returned

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 4, 2011 8:34 PM, "Rob Owens" wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:35:48PM -0700, consul tores wrote: > I've had good luck with photorec, which is part of the testdisk package. > It will find files regardless of the state of your partitions. > Now that is just too cool. The wiki does have

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:35:48PM -0700, consul tores wrote: > 2011/7/4 yazicivo : > > Hi, > > > > I have an XFS partition, which is > > I have never used XFS, but it could be helpfull! > > If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. > If you are not using Lilo, testdisk could be the appropriated t

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 04/07/2011 21:35, consul tores wrote: If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. If you backed up your MBR, maybe it's time to recover it (on a copy hard drive as well) to restore the partition table (hope your xfs partition haven't changed too much). Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread consul tores
2011/7/4 yazicivo : > Hi, > > I have an XFS partition, which is I have never used XFS, but it could be helpfull! If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. If you are not using Lilo, testdisk could be the appropriated tool. If nothing help, then you might use a hex editor as shawn mentioned. I am

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 08:01, yazicivo wrote: > On Mon 7/4/2011 2:41 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > Price is fine with me, the problem is that there is no such company I know > of in Turkey. Any suggestions? > maybe here: http://www.werecoverdata.com/AS/Aydin-Turkey/DataRecoveryAydin-Turkey.htm NOTE:

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 04/07/2011 14:37, Axel Freyn wrote: Hi, So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make that post 'oh shit' backup, your ch

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi, > > > So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a > > backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 > > for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make that > > post 'oh shit' backup, your chance of recovering yourse

RE: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread yazicivo
On Mon 7/4/2011 2:41 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > So, you didn't mention your backup policy. I'm guessing this means you had > none? I had one, but it was damaged 2 days before the original fs crash. Moreover, if I would have one, I wouldn't be bugging you right now. > So, the question is, how much

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread shawn wilson
So, you didn't mention your backup policy. I'm guessing this means you had none? So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make t