Recovery from ext-4

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 26 02:35:30 UTC 2010


On 11/24/2010 06:19 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
...
> Since the USB was formatted FAT32 on a Windows box, but the disk utility
> on the system menu now says it has no partitions, I'm now trying gpart
> against the USB to see what it says.
> 
> The man page for gpart does not mention ext4, and the hard drive was
> formatted with that, so I am not sure what to do there once I've got all
> magicrescue can give me.
> 
> I do have enough spare disk space to dd the whole drive into a file, but
> then what?
> 
> Suggestions?
> 

Use gparted from a liveCD (10.04 or 10.10), that should will pick up ext4.






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