On 4/3/06, Graham Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > Saturday night i dropped my laptop while running, the hdd unseated > and now the filesystem on /home appears to be corrupted. ( reiser ) > > Is there a command I can run to rebuild it? > I can see root with Knoppix but it does not recognize the file type > on the home partition.
ACK! Be very careful with the drive! If it had a head crash you will be needing to replace the drive pretty soon. As a precaution, copy all of your important files off of the drive. A friend of mine did the same thing about a year ago and his drive failed completely about a month later (and for that month it decayed in performance and developed many bad sectors, not to mention the drive became very hot.) As far as recovering data from /home, I can't really help you, but have you tried doing a `hexdump` on the partition? i.e. if /home is /dev/hda3, try: `hexdump /dev/hda3` and see if any non-zeros show up (ctrl-c to stop the hexdump.) This way you can at least see if there is anything there that linux can read. I'm not sure of what laptop you have, but you could also see if the ultimate boot cd will check the hard drive for you and see if there are any bad sectors. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Good luck! -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
