Hello,
I lost all data of a huge xfs formatted partition. I used cfdisk from
a boot cd to delete some partitions. After that I've created some
new. The names of the devicenames changed. E.g. /dev/hda9 got
/dev/hda8 or so. I left the huge xfs formatted partition alone.
Unfortunately I did a big mistake: I didn't reboot before formatting
the other partitions. I formatted them with reiserfs. After that I
realised what I did. I rebooted and found out that the xfs disk isn't
mountable anymore as a xfs disk. It is possible to mount it as
reiserfs. The system was confused and so mkfs.reiserfs had old
partition info and wrote to the xfs partition.
I tried to use xfs_repair but it didn't find a superblock and exited
after 20 minutes or so. I would be very thankful if any of you could
give me a pointer to some sort of software or method to recover some
of my data. Because mkfs.reiserfs only needed some seconds, I think
most of my data it is still physically there. But most of the metadata
has probably gone.
BTW: I've read http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#undelete but I
still want to be sure that I now can reformat my partition.
Kind regards
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Bastian Bowe
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