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. 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