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From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux ext3 partition hosed, is this hardware of software error?
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:55:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081225095534.GY12914@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081221155720.36b700f7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Hi Alan,

On So, 21 Dez 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> ddrescue should do the trick - anything which will copy all the valid
> sectors and write out the lost ones as zero or similar preserving what is
> left of the file.

Again thanks for your help. I rescued most of the hard disc, fsck
succeeded in finding another superblock by itself, and AFAIS (still
checking) all the stuff is still there.

The only thing I hate is the reinstallation procedure (many system files
are hosed, inconsistent md5sums, ...) and that they will carry away my
laptop for quite a lot of days (still under warranty, 2.5months!)

Best wishes

Norbert

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-25  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-21 14:36 linux ext3 partition hosed, is this hardware of software error? Norbert Preining
2008-12-21 14:49 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-21 15:03   ` Norbert Preining
2008-12-21 15:57     ` Alan Cox
2008-12-25  9:55       ` Norbert Preining [this message]

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