[arch-general] [Bulk] 2 recommendations needed for installing Arch Linux

[Kevin Chadwick]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:08:21 +0100
"Ralf Mardorf" wrote:

> When I tied to restore the distro I used before from a backup for the billionth time, I made a mistake and accidentally deleted originals and backups from ext4 partitions.

Have you tried testdisk to recover the data. An arch package is
available and it supports ext4.

You shouldn't run the OS from the disk your recovering from as you may
overwrite the lost data.

This bootdisk comes with testdisk ready to go and won't touch your disk.

http://www.sysresccd.org/

Kc