On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 20:23, evilninja wrote: > Kevin Shanahan wrote: > > Anyway, I'm kind of stuck. Can anyone give me any clues as to how I can > > get this filesystem mounted for long enough to try and recover some > > data? > > as always: try to bypass the fs first and get the data to working disk. > "dd" or even better "dd_rescue" seem to be the tools of choice here. > then, after copying the data to file, you can try "fsck" on this file > and see, what it gives. this way you don't have to deal with hardware > errors while recovering. Thanks, this sounds like exactly what I need - apart from more frequent backups 8). I'll try it out when my replacement drive arrives. Cheers, Kevin. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
