[Btrfs-devel] reversing the effects of mkfs.btrfs?

[Peter Teoh]

thanks for the tip.   i will do  a dd to back up first, probably
tomorrow.   thanks!!!

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Yan Zheng <yanzheng at 21cn.com> wrote:
> 2008/4/25, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com>:
>
> > I was playing  around with btrfs, and did a  mkfs.btrfs on one of my
>  > partition.   Mistakes, it was my data partition (ext3 based).
>  >
>  > I have not yet mounted the device, but the mkfs.btrfs continued to
>  > completion.
>  >
>  > Is it possible to salvage my ext3 filesystem?   Anyway to reverse the
>  > effect of mkfs.btrfs?
>  >
>
>  Try fsck.ext3, but at your risk. (mkfs.btrfs only overwrites a few
>  blocks at beginning of device)
>
>  Good Luck
>  YZ
>



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Regards,
Peter Teoh