[ale] what would you use to recover files from a reformatted ext3/4drive?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Why can't you just change the fstab entry to ext3 and mount?  I don't
think a mount attempt alone should change the data.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Wolf
Halton
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:06 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] what would you use to recover files from a reformatted
ext3/4drive?

I managed to accidentally lose the content of the  /home folder when 
updating Ubuntu 10.4.
Something about starting a project like this at 3:00 am...  I set the 
partition not to be reformatted, but had forgotten it was ext3, so when 
I was pointing the mount to /home, I also set the file system to ext4.  
I am prepared to just suck it up and move on, but if there is a chance 
of recovering the data, I would like to try (before the users over-write

too much). Any ideas?

Wolf
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