From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael chang Subject: Re: recovering from "rm -rf" Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 16:57:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42F3A08A.30102@planet.nl> <42F3A16D.6090306@namesys.com> <42F3C73B.9040808@slaphack.com> Reply-To: michael chang Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <42F3C73B.9040808@slaphack.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Masover Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On 8/5/05, David Masover wrote: > I've got a Reiser4 partition which I just moved (mv) a bunch of stuff > off of, onto another drive. The other drive died immediately after. >=20 > I'm trying to repair the other drive, and to find any backups, but is > there a reasonable chance to recover from the good drive? Maybe force > fsck.reiser4 to rebuild stuff... somehow? It's sort of the equivalent > of an "rm -rf". I have no idea what you're trying to say; can you identify your drives by e.g. Drive A and Drive B? However, I've heard that Spinrite (grc.com) is known to be pretty good at drive recovery, and supposedly compatable with Linux partitions. Requires an i386 compatable machine, and I believe you need Windows to write the diskette/iso which you can boot the recovery system from. Haven't tried it though. What are you trying to do? Format a broken hard drive so you can write to it again, or recover data you deleted unintentionally? A "dead" hard drive usually may be usable, but using one is extremely dangerous (read: you're best off throwing it away, because any data stored on it would have to have a backup on another e.g. hard drive anyways, so you shouldn't use it). For all you know, the drive could have died because the internals wore out/broke, or because your cable died/broke/etc. --=20 ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.