On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: > >> /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 > > On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: > > > >> There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 > > Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition, > > e.g. "dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/on_an_external_disk" > > > > > > > that is exactly what I did but nothing shows up on /dev/sdb1 external > drive after dd has completed . That makes no sense. If /dev/sdb1 points at a corrupted filesystem, above "dd" command will copy the same corrupted filesystem to /dev/sda2. That's expected and okay, if you only want to keep that one read-only as a backup of the originally corrupted filesystem. Then you can play with rescueing sdb1 - but be careful and remember that sda2 is supposed to be your backup of a corrupted filesystem. Don't mess with that one. Better would have been to copy sdb1 to an image file instead of another partition device. -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.4.4-3.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.24 0.55 0.70 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
