Hello everyone, I came back from a long vacation the other day to a RH 7.3 system that would not boot. My situation is similar to Eddy's post "Seriously corrupt ext3 root filesystem - help?" from a couple of days ago. I can mount the drive in read-write and read-only modes. I can get into some of the directories and get certain files off of the disk. But, if I try to access a directory I need under the /home directory (yes it is on the same partition) I get the following: [root@kold home]# ls adh/ alonzo/ giw/ graphics/ ic/ install/ interch/ kdo/ nagios/ [root@kold home]# cd kdo -bash: cd: kdo: Input/output error >From what I've read I should be able to get to the inodes under this directory and they will hold my data. Can someone provide syntax on how I can do this? FYI, I've tried the following utilities: - e2fsck (with every flag combination imaginable) - e2salvage - Tried to copy the partition to another via dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 conv=noerror,sync,notrunc - Tried to copy partition with dd_rescue, and the verbose output shows that when it reaches certain positions it gets an "Input/output error" I ran dd_rescue -rfv /dev/hdb2 out then it stopped at position 37879900 so I "continued" from the next partition dd_rescue -rfv -s 37879899 /dev/hdb2 out2 - sleuthkit - I was able to see some of my lost data with the dls command....I just don't know how to get to it - recover - doesn't find anything cause the data isn't deleted. Also, is there something I'm doing wrong with the dd or dd_rescue to copy the partition somewhere else? I've read that if I get the partition to another device the inodes don't affect it and I should be able to access my data - correct? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!! I'm willing to offer $25 to anyone with solutions! Thanks, -- K Old <kold@kold.homelinux.com> _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
