All, Thank you *very* much for the salient & encouraging suggestions. The usage of the drive is/was purely storage - stuffed inside an external enclosure. I will keep those interested parties apprised of any developments - it will likely be several days - it took over 40 hours just to image the murder-victim > rescue-drive. And later on, I will submit to all the "where was your backup?" you care to inflict. :) For now, it's too much agony. Thirty years worth of scanned family fotos [among other irreplaceables] hang in the balance - you know the drill. It's *never* the drive full of Robot Chicken episodes that gets nuked .... -m- _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
