On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:48 -0700, Will wrote:

> I imagine narrowing down the possibilities is pretty
> much all I can do. I figure if I can get the
> superblock correct at least, then I will be able to
> run fsck, and I image if I run fsck with the option
> -n, I won't damage anything, but perhaps tell if the
> order is incorrect. 

Right, fsck -n is safe to run.  It won't write anything.

> After that I can try mounting the
> file system read only, and from there I can check some
> of the files to see if they look correct (I have a
> number of files larger than 128k, so I should be able
> to detect an incorrect disk ordering fairly easy).

I suspect that once fsck -n runs clean, everything should be fine.  It
won't hurt to be cautious though.

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center



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