[H-GEN] Ext3 partition unformat

QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis hilton at quarkav.com
Wed Jan 14 19:08:22 EST 2009


G'day all,

I have a friend who is running a Linksys NSLU2 (original firmware) who 
recently, in a fit of exceptional stupidity, managed to format a 
partition on one of the attached USB HDDs instead of doing whatever else 
it was he meant to do.  Of course he didn't read the warning and just 
clicked OK - those warnings aren't meant to be taken seriously anyway!  :)

So, I've got this drive here now and it has a freshly formatted 200GB 
(ish) ZEXT3 partition which I can read perfectly.  I cannot read what 
was on it before it was formatted, unfortunately, and my Googling for 
Ext3 unformatting information hasn't surfaced much that's useful.  Hence 
my question here.

So, does anyone know of a way to successfully recover from an accidental 
reformatting of an Ext3 filesystem?

- Hilton Travis




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