Re: [Jfs-discussion] recovery after format ?]

[Christian K. <ev...@g-...>]

Scott Thornley schrieb:
> Anyone ? Any pointers to pertinent info ? Am I TSOL and should just go
> away ?
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     [Jfs-discussion] recovery after format ?
> Date:     Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:18:23 -0700
-----------------^ hm, didn't see that post...

> I just performed an installation of a new distribution on one my laptops
> spare partitions. Unfortunately it looks like that as part of the
> installation, one of the existing jfs partitions that was not set to be
> re-formatted, inadvertantly was. A jfs_fsck reports no errors for this
> partition, there are no files/directories in a directory listing. A

i can't quite follow you - the installation completeted on an unformatted
parition? how did the data got to the disk then?

> search for various strings reveals the data is still there and not
> zero'd out. I have backups of super-critical data, so this is tragic but
> not disasterous. Still, I wouldn't mind devoting some time to attempting
> a full recovery.

if fsck_jfs reports no errors, then the fs seems to be ok and i guess the
installation process must have screwed up in some way.

> 
> I haven't been able to google up any jfs file recovery tools, but then
> search is all about your search criteria, and I might not be using the
> right ones. Would there also be a way to manually do a full or partial
> recovery that wouldn't take until the heat death of the universe ? It's
> a 10G partition with about 4G of data that'd I'd have to wade through.

i am only aware of recovery tools for ext2/ext3 but have not come across
similiar tools for jfs and others. cat & grep are the way to go here, but
it's not funny for 10GB of data. i wish someone would correct me :-\

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