> > Well, I thought the same thing initially, but like the poster I have a > drive which dies (locks up internally? I don't know) as soon as > certain files are accessed. Since I could get 95%+ of the files > using the "rsync -av --exclude-from {bad_file_list}" method, and the > files I couldn't recover were of marginal value, I did that, as it was > expedient. > 90% of files I need is inside a subdirectly 'public' which cannot be read ........ :( 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