Re: [Sheflug] seriously belly-up system

[Paul Sims <paul_sims [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 13:50, Matthew Collins wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks Matthew - unfortunately reiserfsck stops short of the small
miracle I suspected wouldn't happen. AFAIK the filesystem is well &
truly down the pan. The clicking from the drive sounds as if it's
mocking me........ 

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