On 9/20/07, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:11:53PM -0500, admin at lctn.org wrote:
> > I have a listserv box that the drive died on a few days ago. I ran fsck
> on
> > it and it fixed what it could. I am able to view it in X when running a
> > Linux rescue CD. It has the partition size right, but It cannot
> determine
> > the file system. Is there anything out there that can repair a ext3 file
> > system without wiping out all data?
>
> ext[23] have many backup superblocks.  Before doing anything
> destructive, make sure to make a copy (using dd).  Even better
> would be to dd your partition to a file on a separate hard
> drive, connect the backup copy to a loopback device and attempt
> running fsck.ext3 on it.  If the fsck complains about a missing
> superblock, try running with "-b 32768" parameter.


Having moved from the previous thread to this one...sounds like a good
meeting hands-on. :)
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