[ale] Linux Ext2 Unformat?

zeb n4zm at mindspring.com
Sat Sep 25 09:41:13 EDT 2004


On Friday 24 September 2004 04:48 pm, charriglists at bellsouth.net 
wrote:
> Greetings all,
>      Had a little goof during a late night session.  Is there a
> utility that can unformat an ext2 partition?  I was aiming the
> format at /dev/hdb1 and hit /dev/hda1 instead.  I googled for info
> on it, came up with R-Linux.  R-Linux runs in windows of all
> places, but I just couldn't seem to make it work.  Any assistance,
> pointers will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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'testdisk" is supposed to be able to do just that.  I have never used 
it and cannot vouch for it.  If you do try it, I would appreciate 
feedback.

Regards, Zeb



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