[mythtv-users] recovery of files and filenames from ext4 partition

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Phill,

Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 9:02:25 PM, you wrote:

> On 03/02/2015 10:25 am, "Mark Perkins" <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Rebooted, and got the standard Ubuntu file system check which I let do it
>> its thing (bad idea but too late now)

> Out of interest, why is this a bad idea? To the uninitiated, like me, it
> seems like a good idea and I would have done it. So it would be good to
> know why not to do it.

Because it can worsen the situation by overwriting otherwise
salvageable data. Before you do anything that can wrongly change the
disk-status, you first must investigate what exactly has happened.
And than you best try to copy the data off the disk without performing
any write action.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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