Re: [Sheflug] ext2 Data Recovery - A lost cause?

["Chris J" <nospam [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Everyone,
> 

> I've tried Mandrake's "recover -a", and then "e2fsck -y", but the whole
> thing froze up, and another e2fsck showed that I'd invalidated the
> superblock on the disk image - so I made another one.
> 
> Is the whole thing a lost cause with so many files missing?
> 
> Are there any other tools available that can help me?
> 

debugfs is about the only other tool I can think of. But it is very 
low-level ... and it makes it possible to completely destroy a filesystem 
:-) I'd suggest doing some reading about this, but beyond that, the data is 
probably lost for good. How soon after the delete did you copy the data ?

Chris...

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