> >Hello everyone, __snipped stuff to do with zipped files___
>While I'm still off topic and speaking of data recovery, has anyone >every recovered data from a ext3 filesystem after all utilities have >been tried to repair them? I've tried all the utilities off of >freshmeat.net and nothing works. I've got bad blocks and i-nodes. Any >suggestions are welcome and you can email me off list. > >Thanks, >Kevin >-- >K Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> once, a couple of years ago, i used perl and some utility to recover files from a doomed filesystem- i thought it was debugfs, but i looked it up and am now not sure... i will try to find my perlscript... the utility in question allows you to dump inodes as files into another filesystem- if your disk has multiple partitions, or you have multiple disks, you can dump your stuff there.. what the perl script did was to organize them into different directories according to their timestamp.. then i installed a new system (redhat something or other i think) and looked at the files with nautilous- which figured out what /kind/ of file each was... a lot of manual work, but well worth it. saved images, text, and scripts/config files that way. i will look for that script and post it tomorrow if i find it- no sense letting it go to waste. i just wish i could remember the utility that let me dump those inodes.. willy :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
