On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:24:14PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > I know that I should try to use debugfs to rescue the > root partition (I want that /etc directory back!) and > the /home partition. But how can I get access to > debugfs without toasting what's already on the machine? > The debugfs program is there but it links to a missing > library libss.so.something.
Well only one person answered, to say that fsck.ext2 and e2fsck are one and the same (hard links to the same program - thanks!). Eventually I had the idea of installing a minimal debian system into one of the swap areas (256 meg)(to avoid accidentally overwriting a fs I was interested in). Fortunately debugfs (and the libraries it depends on) and fsck were also included, so I could fsck the fs that I was interested in and mop up the resulting piles of stuff in lost+found. Morals: - A good-sized extra swap filesystem can come in handy. - The debian install cds make ok recovery installs, if you have a little space you can spare on your hard drive. - Oh, and back up your hard disks. You /never/ know when they will become toast (or for what reason). -- bjb at achilles dot net Debian http://www.debian.org
