> > To get most of the data off the dying drive, use rsync -v, and create > a list > of files to exclude, when you detect they cause the drive to die. I need to get files from 'public/EL/', however, 'public' cause the drive die ........ > > > debugfs is your friend. It can open and list a directory by inode > number, and dump the files to another filesystem. Is it possible to get the inode number of 'public/EL' without hitting the 'public' which cause the drive die? Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html