From XP again.
First, thanx to Josten Bernstsen for his message, which unfortunately was unhelpful, but not his fault. The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK. I would like to save some data, which is in KMail "saved mail" format before I reformat the disk and put some kind of Linux back on it. I found a program called rfstool, that seems to read the Reiser fs. I copied what I believe is the saved mail file, but I don't know how to read it in Windows. I'll work on it, and report back. Eudora supposedly uses the same encoding. If it really is the data, then fine. I'd just like to verify it, somehow. (Before everything went to pieces, I tried to run Eudora in WINE, but had a giant list of things it couldn't find. If anybody knows how to do it, please advise.) Would I be better with SuSE 9.0 if I could find a copy? Opinions wanted. --doug
On Monday August 16 2004 11:40 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
From XP again.
First, thanx to Josten Bernstsen for his message, which unfortunately was unhelpful, but not his fault. The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
[snip] Doug, I'm coming in late to this, so maybe I'm way off base here. Is the hard drive(s) new Western Digital, by chance? Of late, I've had VERY BAD luck with them.....seems they have some code in their IDE controllers that is ONLY MickySoft friendly. That is my assessment at this time anyway. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."
At 12:10 AM 8/17/2004 -0400, Fred Miller wrote:
On Monday August 16 2004 11:40 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
From XP again.
First, thanx to Josten Bernstsen for his message, which unfortunately was unhelpful, but not his fault. The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
[snip]
Doug, I'm coming in late to this, so maybe I'm way off base here. Is the hard drive(s) new Western Digital, by chance? Of late, I've had VERY BAD luck with them.....seems they have some code in their IDE controllers that is ONLY MickySoft friendly. That is my assessment at this time anyway.
Fred
No, the drives are IBM, and the system worked fine for a couple of months. AAMOF, I just left it running Linux for the last 5 or 6 weeks, never even turned it off. All of a sudden, I could not access my media drives, and then after rebooting, I can't reboot at all. I've been off W/D drives for several years, myself. I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive whatever. I think something corrupted the file(s), don't know what, and I'm going to have to reinstall, and I'm going to lose a lot of data. At least Windows allows me to write to floppies. I was _never_ able to do that with 9.1. --doug
On 17.08.04,00:26, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 12:10 AM 8/17/2004 -0400, Fred Miller wrote:
On Monday August 16 2004 11:40 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
From XP again.
First, thanx to Josten Bernstsen for his message, which unfortunately was unhelpful, but not his fault. The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
[snip]
Doug, I'm coming in late to this, so maybe I'm way off base here. Is the hard drive(s) new Western Digital, by chance? Of late, I've had VERY BAD luck with them.....seems they have some code in their IDE controllers that is ONLY MickySoft friendly. That is my assessment at this time anyway.
Fred
No, the drives are IBM, and the system worked fine for a couple of months. AAMOF, I just left it running Linux for the last 5 or 6 weeks, never even turned it off. All of a sudden, I could not access my media drives, and then after rebooting, I can't reboot at all. I've been off W/D drives for several years, myself. I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive whatever. I think something corrupted the file(s), don't know what, and I'm going to have to reinstall, and I'm going to lose a lot of data. At least Windows allows me to write to floppies. I was _never_ able to do that with 9.1.
Some ideas to try out:
1. Boot on the DVD and choose the rescue system. Then run "reiserfsck
--check". Then do what the check recommends.
2. Make a Knoppix CD and boot with that. Then you can move your data.
http://www.knoppix.net/
3. Get a disk of similar size. Use dd_rescue to copy all data from the
old disk to the new one. (This option is best when you have a disk with
bad sectors).
- Jostein
--
Jostein Berntsen
The Monday 2004-08-16 at 23:40 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
reiserfsck?
I found a program called rfstool, that seems to read the Reiser fs. I copied what I believe is the saved mail file, but I don't know how to read it in Windows.
mbox format mail folders can be read with mozilla or netscape (in windows or linux). Maildir I think not. Info about this you can find on the unofficial suse faq: you may have to create empty index files to fool mozilla into noticing the folder. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
The trick seems to be, where are the actual "saved mail" data files. Under "doug>saved mail" there are 3 directories. One is "cur" one is "tmp", I forget what the 3rd one is, but only "cur" has anything in it, and when I do a dir on that, (in Windows) all the crazy encoded filenames come up as 0 bytes long. If I can do a reiserfsck somehow, I'll try that. At 01:58 PM 8/17/2004 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2004-08-16 at 23:40 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
reiserfsck?
I found a program called rfstool, that seems to read the Reiser fs. I copied what I believe is the saved mail file, but I don't know how to read it in Windows.
mbox format mail folders can be read with mozilla or netscape (in windows or linux). Maildir I think not. Info about this you can find on the unofficial suse faq: you may have to create empty index files to fool mozilla into noticing the folder.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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On 17.08.04,14:08, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The trick seems to be, where are the actual "saved mail" data files. Under "doug>saved mail" there are 3 directories. One is "cur" one is "tmp", I forget what the 3rd one is, but only "cur" has anything in it, and when I do a dir on that, (in Windows) all the crazy encoded filenames come up as 0 bytes long. If I can do a reiserfsck somehow, I'll try that.
At 01:58 PM 8/17/2004 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If you run "reiserfsck --check" after you have booted on the DVD,
selected the rescue system and logged in as root, you can see if you can
repair the file system with either:
reiserfsck --fix-fixable
reiserfsck --rebuild-db
The check option will tell you which to use.
If you can use any of the above commands, you will probably be able to
boot normally again afterwards. Often boot problems is caused by a
filesystem with errors that can only be repaired as root, with the
partitions unmounted, as when you boot into rescue mode.
- Jostein
--
Jostein Berntsen
The Tuesday 2004-08-17 at 14:08 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The trick seems to be, where are the actual "saved mail" data files. Under "doug>saved mail" there are 3 directories. One is "cur" one is "tmp", I forget what the 3rd one is, but only "cur" has anything in it, and when I do a dir on that, (in Windows) all the crazy encoded filenames come up as 0 bytes long. If I can do a reiserfsck somehow, I'll try that.
I can not verify, because my setup is quite diferent in that respect: I use the very same folders with at least for mail clients, so they are mixed and it is difficult to know which files are specific to which client - except consulting my notes. I think the main kmail folder (file) is 'Mail/inbox'. Then, any other mbox file in the directory '~/Mail', is used and displayed. For each 'mbox' file, it will create some hidden files: '.mbox.index', '.mbox.index.sorted', and depending on the version, also '.mbox.index.ids'. For a folder to have subfolders, it will be named as '.folder.subdirectory', but also will exists the files '.folder', '.folder.index', and '.folder.ndex.sorted' All that I wrote in a small howto that you can find in the unofficial suse faq. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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