On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:15:06 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:59:22 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > >> I ran mkfs -L on an external usb drive, hoping to change it's name, >> which it did. It, of course, rewrote the inode tables, which I did not >> realize that it would, and I cannot find my files on the disk. Is >> there any way to recover the files? > > I would try with a LiveCD containing Photorec: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón
The filesystem in question is on an external USB drive, so if OP's root filesystem is on an internal drive, and OP specifies a directory not on the USB for the recovered files, maybe there is no need to use a LiveCD? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j1eh21$rk4$3...@dough.gmane.org
