[Grml] recovery from mkfs error?

[John Magolske]

I've heard grml comes with forensic tools, and so was wondering
if there's anything in the toolkit that might help me recover
from an unpleasant mistake. 

Trying to reformat a usb thumbdrive, I overlooked the fact that
/dev/sda was my 160GB external hard drive (ext3), and that the
thumbdrive was actually /dev/sdb. I issued this command:

    mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda

The most important stuff was backed up, but there is some pain
involved. Any suggestions (yes, I know... PAY ATTENTION!!) or
pointers much appreciated.

Regards,

John


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