On Tuesday 19 Oct 2004 1:17 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime Today, [EMAIL PROTECTED] assembled some asciibets to say: > > Are you sure about this one?? > > didn't you read my last line. I am sure. very sure. what do you think > could go wrong? Oh yeah, forgot to mention. Use a freezer bag. You've
can Second this... Seen it myself... .. classify the idea under "UnBelievable But True" ;-) & trevour,, once u get the HDD work w/o too much i/o errs.. use the fsck options (-b , do a man fsck.ext3 to see more) once u get a valid backup superblock... ... cross ur fingers! works in all cases of course unless ur sectors are corrupt, then u will not get the data for that sector, but should be recoverable for the others... the real trick here is to be patient b/c if u havent got data on the superblock backups.... these numbers seem relatively common.. 17, 32768, 65539, 98304, 131072, 163840, 196608, 229376, 262144 .. (for the mathematicaly inclined u can notice there is a fairly common progression.. ) Erle Pereira -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
