Re: ran mkreiserfs and erased my ext2 partition!!!

2004-05-03 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 May 2004 10:46 am, Patrick House wrote: > I ran > $ mkreiserfs /dev/hda6 > > instead of /dev/hda5 (which was a blank partition) and it overwrote > my ext2 parition with all my backup data without any sort of > confirma

Re: ran mkreiserfs and erased my ext2 partition!!!

2004-05-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-03T18:46:36Z, Patrick House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way at all to recover this? Got that backup tape handy? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

ran mkreiserfs and erased my ext2 partition!!!

2004-05-03 Thread Patrick House
I ran $ mkreiserfs /dev/hda6 instead of /dev/hda5 (which was a blank partition) and it overwrote my ext2 parition with all my backup data without any sort of confirmation. Is there any way at all to recover this? If i just convert it again to an ext2 filesystem can I use Midnight Commander&#

Re: mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
rive > > but I kept getting the following error > > pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 2 > > that makes a reiserfs filesystem, not a partition > > use cfdisk to make the partitions, thats an easy to use tool in my > experience. > > the partition type should be

Re: mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread nate
Leo Spalteholz said: > Hi, > I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive but I kept > getting the following error > pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 2 that makes a reiserfs filesystem, not a partition use cfdisk to make the partitions, thats an easy to

mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive but I kept getting the following error pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 2 <-----mkreiserfs, 2002-> reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 mkreiserfs: Guessing about desired format.. mkreiserfs: Kernel 2.4.19

Re: mkreiserfs produces 'not formatted' error

2002-01-16 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 11:00 pm, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Are you _sure_ you answer 'y' here? > Isn't that the strangest thing. I've made reiser filesystems many times and never had any problems. I wonder why I didn't notice it. You are absolutely right - I was typing 'yes' instead of 'y'.

Re: mkreiserfs produces 'not formatted' error

2002-01-15 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Dougie Nisbet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK! > (y/n) ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/hdb1'! yes > mkreiserfs: Disk was not formatted Are you _sure_ you answer 'y' here? mkreiserfs is very critical about what you answer to

mkreiserfs produces 'not formatted' error

2002-01-15 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I've set up a few reiser filesystems now and not had any problems. However, I have one drive that is producing the following error message: mkreiserfs: Disk was not formatted The disk was previously a windows 98 disk. 25MB. IBM. I've run cfdisk and reinitialized the dis