you could try dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/tmp/hdc1 to get a raw dump of the partition, then use the strings command to see if you recognize any of the data there. of course you may see old junk from old filesystems, but something might trigger your memory. if you copied files there shortly after the mkfs, a lot of the data may be contiguous...
ray On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > Terry Stockdale wrote: > > >> > > > > Isn't there one called fsck? As in > > fsck /dev/hdc2 -r > > > > The -r option tells it to do an interactive check. > > > Actually, I had tried that. here is the output: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sr]# fsck -r /dev/hdc2 > fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdc2 > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> > > I am beginning to wonder if I really had put any data there... I just > want to be able to make sure before I wipe it out. > > Shannon > > > > >> I think I must just be missing something here....? Or I am mistaken > >> and I didn't really put the files there to begin with? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Shannon > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
