e2fsck -y wipe all my data

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Aug 17 20:31:08 UTC 2009


I have been away on leave but I thought I would comment.

yordy wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a HD connected as USB device and cause for electrical problems
> in my home, my disk go off unexpectedly more than one time some weeks
> ago, a few days ago I can't mount neither of my linux partitions on
> that disk.

If you have electrical problems, get a UPS.  Also, check the drive the 
next time you plug it in.

> Any idea why is this? Or how can I restore all the data pre existing
> in that partition?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

You may have to run some forensic's type software (Foremost) to recover 
your files.

  I had an issue where my fingers deleted (Slap fingers again and again) 
  a whole partition of data.  I did recover about 20% of the data which 
was better than I expected.  The partition was part of a RAID and LVM 
array and I only had one of the two drives from the LVM.

If you haven't, don't use the drive yet.

Also, there are some ways to undelete ext2 files but it isn't from what 
I have heard.

Good luck.
-- 
Robin Laing




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