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. :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070924/a0138e6f/attachment.htm