Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

From	Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster
Date	2016-03-14 21:00 +0100
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On 15/03/2016 6:46 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> I wonder if you could re-align your original partition and then try to
> do recovery of that?  There won't be any journal to help though, so the
> tool I used isn't going to help; but there might be other options to
> reconstruct the file system from super blocks that haven't been trashed.

Oh and I would not reformat it once the partition is back to original;
perhaps if you can do a dry run and then you can see where the
superblocks are probably written as they were before.

Part of the man page for mke2fs:

  -n     Causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem

Cheers
AndrewM

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Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 01:20 +0100
  Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 02:10 +0100
    Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 05:00 +0100
      Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster rlharris@oplink.net - 2016-03-13 06:00 +0100
    Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-03-13 10:50 +0100
      Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 21:40 +0100
        Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-14 20:50 +0100
          Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-14 21:00 +0100
          Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-14 21:00 +0100

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