On 9/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Florin Iucha</b> <<a href="mailto:florin@iucha.net">florin@iucha.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:11:53PM -0500, <a href="mailto:admin@lctn.org">admin@lctn.org</a> wrote:<br>> I have a listserv box that the drive died on a few days ago. I ran fsck on<br>> it and it fixed what it could. I am able to view it in X when running a
<br>> Linux rescue CD. It has the partition size right, but It cannot determine<br>> the file system. Is there anything out there that can repair a ext3 file<br>> system without wiping out all data?<br><br>ext[23] have many backup superblocks. Before doing anything
<br>destructive, make sure to make a copy (using dd). Even better<br>would be to dd your partition to a file on a separate hard<br>drive, connect the backup copy to a loopback device and attempt<br>running fsck.ext3 on it. If the fsck complains about a missing
<br>superblock, try running with "-b 32768" parameter.</blockquote><div><br>Having moved from the previous thread to this one...sounds like a good meeting hands-on. :) </div></div>