Help needed to recover data from ext3 file system where mkfs was issued accidentally

[Christian]

On Sun, April 24, 2005 14:06, kapil.sampath at wipro.com said:
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 mnt_pt/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
> or too many mounted file systems

well, does ext2fsck do anything? if not, i guess you can only use the
"usual undelete attempts" via "cat /dev/hdb2 | strings" or feed google
with "ext2 undelete" - there are some win32 GUI tools out there, which
were able to recover lots of data from a ext3 crash we had here.

thanks,
Christian.
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