From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D45138010 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D809E21C017; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [78.25.223.226]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFB321C002 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.18.46] (unknown [192.168.18.46]) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8A5D6B4BF4; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:46:42 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5065D5D9.70309@thegeezer.net> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:52:41 +0100 From: geez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: shot an XFS-filesystem, oh my References: <506361E4.3040402@xunil.at> <50639EB6.3060906@orlitzky.com> <506410EE.7030108@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <506410EE.7030108@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b80d0131-bff7-4a4f-be93-1de2a64f321c X-Archives-Hash: c0eb8ce04262870c4ae351c85afcff9e Howdy, you could do worse than try scanning with testdisk, it's saved lost effort caused from 'experiments' with raid controllers before, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk On 27/09/2012 09:40, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 27.09.2012 02:32, schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > >> That won't work with any filesystem. I think instead of that last >> step, you should have booted to a livecd and used GParted to resize >> the partition. > Yeah, my fault, stupid ... :-( > > I went through this once: >>> http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/resizing_a_kvm_or_qemu_disk_image.php >> That won't help you get your stuff back but it might help out the >> next time. >> >> There's proprietary software that can scan the disk for the deleted >> partition. They used to be included on Hiren's Boot CD circa 9.0, >> but you could easily waste a few hours screwing around with it. If >> there was nothing critical and nobody else has any clever ideas, >> you're probably better off reinstalling. You should cherish the times >> you trash something non-critical. > Thanks, yes ... > >