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Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten?

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On Fri, 22 May 2015 10:53:53 -0700, Vilmos Soti wrote:

> "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm trying to recover an ext3 fs I blew away by dd(1)-ing to a flash
>> drive - but the device name got changed under me  :(
> 
> I remember there is a program in a photo-related package which recovers
> some files from a messed up partition. AFAIR it simply looks at the data
> blocks and tries to figure out what kind of data it is. Of course, if
> the FS is fragmented, then it won't help.
> 
> OK, I found it: http://www.security.org/wiki/PhotoRec
> 

I didn't succeeed with `testdisk` from security.org
and would like to know how other users experience it.

Let's see some logged results?

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Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-05-22 08:05 +0000
  Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-22 09:24 +0100
  Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2015-05-22 08:38 +0000
    Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-05-22 09:58 +0000
    Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-07-12 12:54 +0000
      Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-12 12:47 -0400
        Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 07:40 +0000
          Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-13 14:30 -0400
      Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2015-07-13 11:41 +0000
        Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 20:37 +0000
          Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 07:55 +0000
          Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2015-07-14 14:35 +0000
            Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 15:20 +0000
  Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2015-05-22 10:53 -0700
    Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-05-23 08:25 +0000
    Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 06:40 +0000
  Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? lakshmi <lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 22:06 -0700
    Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2015-05-26 09:57 -0400
      Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-05-27 02:58 +0000
        Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 06:17 +0000
          Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-06-04 18:44 +0000

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