Hey all.. I had a bad IDE controller that hosed my EXT3 filesystems. A resulting fsck damaged pat of the filesystem and the root inode is gone (on my main drive AND the backup drive). I immediately DD'd the main drive over to an identical drive that I have been working on. But every time.. a fsck destroys all the data (moves everything to lost+found) and nothing that I've found is able to restore the dir structure... or allow me to superposition any of the subdirs (such as /home/*). I've tried testdisk, dd_recover, and Autopsy.. mounting and fsking with alternate superblocks, all with no success. I would like to retain file names.. as I see that SOME filename/dir structure is intact when the fsck starts nuking all my files that don't have a parent dir (e.g. ../home/user/file1 --> lost+found). Is there a way that this information can be salvaged? Or a new fake root inode be slid into place and all the links associated? My last ditch effort will be to allow the migration to lost+found and then try to copy off files based on UID/GID/date, but I would really like to retain file names. Any related into would be useful... but my hopes are not high. Tweeks _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
