Shawn Holland schreef:
When ever I pop in any drive (regardless of its FS) I just mount it and it never complains. Except to spit out IO errors during the copy process. I don't bother to do a FS check. Like I said, I mount, copy, unmount. If your lucky enough to have another computer running linux you can do the same thing. If you only have the one computer then a live cd should let you boot and then mount the existing drive and then copy to an external source, just like I do. But doing an FS check is going to produce those errors when you just need to copy off the data. So just copy it off :)
Would that be a copy or a dd? I never had a disk fail in that way, but what I would try: * dd the faulty disk to an image file on a *very* large good disk * make a copy of the image file * mount the image file as a loopback device * copy whatever you want from the loopback device. Of course, you would need a second hard disk that is at least twice as big as the original one. And don't bother with gzipping the image. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org