From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kuba Ober Subject: Re: Filesystem errors Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:11:44 -0400 Message-ID: <200207170811.44229.kuba@mareimbrium.org> References: <200207160146.01440.cabernet@internode.on.net> <200207171736.44485.cabernet@internode.on.net> <20020717121056.A12081@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <20020717121056.A12081@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:36:44PM +0930, Brian Marr wrote: > > Thanks for your comments. My system is still going under my watchful eye. > > I tried to copy the data using tar to a spare diskl > > tar -cplf - -C /myhardrive . | tar -xpvf - > > but this did not go far. I wonder if I could boot into rescue and do a > > dd ? I have not used this before. > > use dd_rescue tool, conventional dd is not working very good with > broken hard disks. Better yet, buy sprinrite (www.grc.com). It's an absolutely great tool, and more than worth the money. Although it doesn't handle out-of-place (i.e. data moving) recovery on non-fat filesystems, it can diagnose your disk and try recovering in-place. It uses quite advanced data recovery methods. It goes about as far as you can go without taking the hard drive out and plugging it into specialized hardware. Did I mention that spinrite was about 100kb in size and written in assembler? Cheers, Kuba Ober