On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:04:40 +0530 (IST), Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say: > > > Luckily no HBA or SCSI controller. Its IDE. dmesg screams io error. > > And fdisk -l doesn't work but throws up io errors. > > sorry trevor, should have given this solution first. > > put your hard disk into the freezer (T<0�C) for 24 hours. When you take > it out it should work for at least 24 hours. That should give you > enough time to copy the data off it. > > Philip > > PS: I'm not kidding. I've done this twice before.
Yeah it works I have tried that as well :) Just be sure that you cover the HDD well before you put it in the freezer :) The release notes of e2fsprogs say that ext3 fs is supported for quite a few operations including replaying journal in user mode and identifing/reading superblocks on disk. but YMMV. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
