On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:01, Mick wrote:
... Once or twice things went hairy and I would get a message similar to yours. On these rare occasions I booted with a LiveCD and with the partitions unmounted I ran --check, then --fix-fixable and finally --rebuild-tree. You may want to use an external drive with dd to image the current / partition and do all your recovery work on that. If you don't care too much about the risk of catastrophic failure then just run --rebuild-tree with a LiveCD and see what you get.
That's a great idea. I'm (now) religious about backing up my customers' computers, often using dd like this, but for some reason it hadn't yet occurred to me today.
Stroller.
