Re: [Sheflug] seriously belly-up system

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:35:47PM +0100, Paul Sims wrote:
> Aaaarrrggghhh!! My once-trusty Mandrake 9.1 is now a dead duck. I could
> really do with rescuing the contents of my /home - ironically I was
> starting the process of backing up the pc before making some hardware
> changes. Something nasty happened on the hdd and now all rescue attempts
> fail to recognise the filesystem. As this is reiserfs I suppose I'll
> have to resign myself to losing the lot unless any of you guys know
> different.I've built a fresh hdd so at least I'm back in a very basic,
> no-data-left style. Bah!!

There is a reiserfsck routine, which may be able to recover the file.
However if the disk is b0rked you won't have much fun.

Hummmm.

http://www.martian.org/marty/archives/000888.html

This guy took a backup of the disk to a file, and did the recovery
through the loopback filesystem driver. Neat. You could try that.

> 
> BTW, the system returns bad filesystem/superblock errors when trying to
> mount it.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
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