On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:03:25PM -0500, James Spinti wrote: > You could try to boot with Knoppix and transfer your /home partition on to > another drive or a network store. Unless of course the drive is > completely trashed. if you boot from another media and mount your drive, *be sure to mount it read-only* otherwise linux will try to update the atime on the inodes of the filesystem; and this will make the drive die faster, and aggravate any bad-sector problems on your disk. trust me, this makes all the difference in the world between getting most of your data (everything except what was on the bad sector); and everything up to the first hit on the bad sector (which may not be much, considering the random access patterns on disks). Carl Soderstrom. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list