On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:41PM -0600, Arnie Stender wrote: > The bad news is > that dired didn't do what I needed it to. I have a disk that was said to > contain a complete linux OS and about 130Gig of data. Audio file s I > think. They gave it to me to try and recover. I can mount the disk but > the root of the filesystem only contains 1 directory and that has a name > that starts with an ESC character. Everything I have tried to change the > name to ASCII has failed. At the moment I am trying to find the root > directory on the disk in hopes of being able to dd the data into a file > then change the name of the directory and dd it back to the disk so I > can see what is in it. Any thoughts on a better approach?
Recovery of data is not my area. If you have the space on another disk, try dd'ing the disk/partition to a file, and trying to manipulate the copy. Maybe google knows something about 'data recovery', dunno. There's a slim possibility that one of the backup superblocks is going to be better. I suppose you might be able to specify a backup superblock in an fsck, or something, and then look in lost+found (not very nice). The important thing is not to trash any remaining data while learning the process. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
