From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Kervin Pierre <kpierre@fit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs corruption recovery?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:07:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020108200705.S769@lynx.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C3BB082.8020204@fit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3C3BB082.8020204@fit.edu>; from kpierre@fit.edu on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:52:50PM -0500
On Jan 08, 2002 21:52 -0500, Kervin Pierre wrote:
> I install and used 2.4.17 for about a week before my filesystem
> corrupted. I've tried 'fsck -a' but it complains that there was no
> valid superblock found.
Try "e2fsck -B 4096 -b 32768 <device>" instead.
> Are there any tools or techniques that will recover data from the
> corrupted filesystem even if there isn't a valid superblock? Or is
> there a way to write a temporary superblock so I can access the
> information on the disk?
The ext2 format (includes ext3) has backup superblocks for just this reason.
> Lastly, if all else fails I'm going to try sending the drive one of
> those 'file recovery companies'. Does anyone have a recommendation for
> a particular company? I'm guessing that there'll be a few that wouldn't
> know what to do with a ext3 partition.
Is the data really that valuable, and you don't have a backup? It may
cost you several thousand dollars to do a recovery from such a company.
Yet, it isn't worth doing backups, it appears.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 2:52 fs corruption recovery? Kervin Pierre
2002-01-09 3:07 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-01-09 3:26 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-09 4:14 ` Kervin Pierre
2002-01-09 5:29 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-09 11:10 ` Walter Hofmann
2002-01-10 15:50 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-09 10:24 ` Helge Hafting
2002-01-09 15:12 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-09 15:22 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-09 12:26 ` Bjorn Wesen
2002-01-09 20:29 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2002-01-09 4:03 ` Kervin Pierre
2002-01-09 5:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 9:28 ` Thomas Capricelli
2002-01-09 10:43 ` Andreas Dilger
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