On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:36 AM Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <k.gavrilenko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I accidentally formatted the existing btrfs partition today with mkfs.btrfs > Partition obviously table remained intact, while all three superblock 0,1,2 correspond to the new btrfs UUID. > The original partition was daily snapshotted and was mounted using "compress-force=lzo,space_cache=v2" so I guess the recovery using photorec would be troublesome. > > Is there any chance to recover the data? > Any ideas or advices would be highly appreciated. mkfs.btrfs doesn't write that much data, but does zero some other things out to avoid later confusion so it's plausible some of the previous btrfs has already been damaged by those overwrites. But if you ignore that, I bet you can reconstruct the old super and at least do a read only mount of the previous file system, and at least get a backup. The hard part is finding the start LBA for all the roots, and the physical address for the system chunk so that you can populate the system chunk array field in the super block correctly. It's mainly a question of time and effort, there's no tool that can do this for you, it's pretty much a manual process. -- Chris Murphy
