thanks that did work!! except of a few MB I have everything in a 3GB file, which I can mount after reiserfsck, as you suspected... unfortunately the filestructur is gone, so I have to go through 100000 files (mails) in one folder.
thanks again tim On Friday, 12. October 2001 21:30, you wrote: > On Oct 12, 2001 18:59 +0200, Debian Main User wrote: > > Of course I like to recover at least some of the reiserfs partition...., > > I cant mount it and I cant dd the partition to a file (fails at 13MB or > > so...., and drive gets in an endlessloop making clack clack clack CLACK > > and so on...). > > What I have done in previous cases like this is dd until the bad spot, then > kill dd (it will show you the number of blocks read/written). Next, run > > dd if=/dev/bad_disk of=backup_file seek=next_good skip=next_good > conv=notrunc > > where "next_good" is what dd reported as having successfully read/written > plus some number (1, 2, 64, whatever) which is the number of sectors to > skip. The smaller the number, the less data lost, but more likely to also > hit the bad spot again (you can also experiment to find the smallest > working value, maybe adding "count=1" so that you don't overwrite other > data in the backup if your disk is progressively getting worse. > > Then, you need to either just ro loopback mount the backup, or if that > fails you need to run reiserfsck before remounting. > > Cheers, Andreas
