On Jun 15, 2004 11:33 +0900, Vinu K V wrote:> I was working with GNU parted and got some changes in the partition and
> the system crashed. I had to freshly install RH Linux 9 again as it
> didn't detect the linux installation. Now the problem
> is /dev/hda is mounted but not showing any data files. It has
> full of data originally. Anyhow Can i recover those data.
> I didnt format any of the hard drive expect the root
> partition for fresh installation. Any hope left with me?
> /dev/hdb had two partitions and it is mounted and detected
> all files well. The problem is with /dev/hda which has two
> major partitions /home and /user2. The df commands gives as follows
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 3020140 1675368 1191356 59% /
> /dev/hda3 50394996 32856 47802184 1% /home
> none 515096 0 515096 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda4 64191716 32856 60898068 1% /user2
> /dev/hdb1 60476036 46272440 11131568 81% /user3
> /dev/hdb2 48172868 41662356 4063412 92% /user4
It would appear that your reinstall, or parted, reformatted your filesystems.
The usage "32856" is almost certainly only the journal file. In
situations
like this it is much better to boot from a rescue CD (or a floppy even, like
Tom's Root Boot disk) and do the recovery before something so dangerous as
installing a new operating system.
If you are looking for text files, you might try:
strings -n 20 -t d /dev/hda3 | grep "important data"
and then use dd to copy the data from the offset reported by strings:
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/user3/file bs=4k skip=<offset in blocks> count=N
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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