On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote:
I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working
woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation
on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized
destroying the first 500 blocks of a 4 GB partition.
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote:
I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid
system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that
partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying
the first 500
On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 12:41 , Paul Scott,,, wrote:
I was thinking that creating a new file system (the problem)
would have written new backup superblocks. Am I wrong? I
would be glad to be wrong! What if an fsck had been done just
after the problem happened?
Well, if only the
I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system.
Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition.
Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500
blocks of a 4 GB partition.
I copied it with dd to another new partition on another
-link the names to the files? I'm a relatively
experienced GNU/Linux user and have done ext2 file recovery a few
times before. I'm not scared of low-level fs editing, so no holds
barred on prospective solutions. Thanks for any help!!
Chris Brown
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