Hi, > > But I do not think that your test is a fare one. > Of course the test is very simple. I am trying to simulate physical damage of disk surface. It is simply a scratch leading to several damaged tracks. > > You overwrote area > where reiserfs stored metadata for data you copied into it. (not sure > about jfs, it probably has the same problem). Do you want to try to > overwrite ext3's inode tables? > That is the problem. The ext2/3 inode tables are spread in all block groups across entire disk. And damaging several continuous tracks doesn't result in such a big data loss. Cheers Ivan _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
