Hi, really really thanks to everyone my "crisis" is almost over and I'm very happy:).
This is step by step procedure I did ( sometimes people reads MailingList archieves): - the fridge trick didn't work so I bought a new hdd bigger than the other and used dd_rescue - I made a partition(sda1) bigger than the broken one (sdb6) and issued :dd_rescue -v /dev/sdb6 /dev/sda1 ,the -v option was usefull for me because everything seemed to stuck when dd_rescue was running under X( that means everything,no keyb,no virtual consoles ecc ecc).Best is to do the job without X. -I got 1880 errors and it took about 8 hours to complete the job -sda1 was still unmountable so i did a e2fsck -y /dev/sda1 -after that sda1 was mountable but every file was not in its original directory ,exporing lost+founds as root showed every file that was missing,mostly with wrong filename and in random position/directory.Well in any case files are accessible and readble,that is they work!!! Hurry in a situation like this is really really bad as RedShift said it definetely makes you breake things up I still have to follow next procedure in order to find out if my hdd is still usable ( but in any case it WON'T be trusted) but the "big deal" is done.After my first message I tought that noone would answear , i was answeared and found the solution too. Very Very happy thanks and what dd_rescue author tells us seems to be true: Just one note: It does work. I unfortunately did not just create this program for fun ... that unfortunately tells me that he had a maxtor too... P.S. Bad news are that because I was in hurry and i live in a small city I had to buy a maxtor.....again :( _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
