Re: [Sheflug] sanity check

[Paul Sims <paul_sims [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:24, matthew [at] janes.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > I have the contents of a corrupted reiserfs partition (saved via dd) as
> > an image file. doing a "cat" at a console results in lots of stuff which
> > looks like my files & other /home goodies - however I cannot mount this,
> > either from the original partition or via the loop device from the
> > image. Reiserfsck appears to try to --rebuild-tree and says the
> > superblock is ok. Is there any way you can think of to get at the data
> > in the image. This is not a life-and-death scenario, but there are some
> > pix from my camera I'd like to retrieve if at all possible.
> 
> Have you done a reiserfsck --rebuild-sb?
> 
> What error message does mount give you?
> ___________________________________________________________________

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock. I've run all the reiserfsck
toys without success - I think my only option is a hex editor to cut out
the relevant bits of the image file.....which is over 3 gig, bah!!

:-(( 

Ta anyhow,

Paul.

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