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Subject: Re: Recovering an EXT3 FS - hopeless if inode list is overwritten?
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 06:40:46 +0000 (UTC)
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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?