6 Aug
2004
6 Aug
'04
09:37
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:09, John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 06 August 2004 12:43 am, Filip Sergeys wrote: > > Fiddle around: suggestions for tools, commandline arguments, strategies, > > ...? > > Is there a way to get into the heart of the filesystem? > > Well, yes, you could get the specs for reiserfs and start bit by bit, > but first you have to get the data off the drive, and THAT does not > sound very promising... > > As I said, I recently had an drive from which I could not boot > because of damage. I was able to mount it, (even tho it complained) > and read certain portions of it. But if I ever even LOOKED at the > bad sectors, the thing would lock up and finally time out. > I have no idea yet what is on the bad sectors. So that will be a trial and error to read off the parts that are not damaged. I basically only need the /home dirs. Did you use specific mount options? > In the end I salvaged about half of the needed data off > of the drive. > The damage was in the file system for /bin and /sbin and > the boot sector was un-readable as well. User data was > quite a ways further down the drive. > > -- > _____________________________________ > John Andersen -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* * System Engineer, Verzekeringen NV * * www.verzekeringen.be * * Oostkaai 23 B-2170 Merksem * * 03/6416673 - 0477/340942 * *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*