Does mkfs.ext4 format your drive? I think I fucked up while installing

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>>60339260
>mke2fs - create an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
what did you think it was going to do

shrug
Is there any way I can get my files back?

>>60339333
not really

maybe next time you won't copy paste unknown commands into your terminal

>>60339333
you could try photorec
you will have clobbered enough of the previous filesystem to make reversal impossible, but you should be able to recovery many files anyway

or just restore from your
>backup

>>60339333
Testdisk

>>60339260
it doesn't fomat a drive, it builds a filesystem on a device

https://linux.die.net/man/8/mkfs

And you're bullshitting OP, you can't build a filesystem on an active device (which your main device should be).

>>60342170
>you can't build a filesystem on an active device
sure you can, it just warns you if it's mounted
it also warns you if there's an existing recognized filesystem in the same place