On 30 May 2002, Chris Mason wrote:
> > I made an image of the disk. It's 3GB. Can I do anything with this
> > thing now? i.e.: formatting the HDD and putting the image back on it.
> > Then there would be no unreadable blocks anymore.
>
> I would keep the original disk in its current state until you get all
> the data back you can. If you think you've got a good copy, take the
> original out of the machine and put it somewhere safe.
>
> I'd start by running the copy through the latest version of reiserfsck.
This is addresses mainly to the original poster: One of the great things
about this approach is that you can mount the image loopback & test your
progress at recovering data, while not risking further damage to the
original data source.
Good luck with the recovery & keep us posted.
Btw, at this point I'd like to thank all the reiserfs developers. It is a
great filesystem, and I personally believe will end up being the defacto
standard for Linux within a few years despite all of the competing
journalling filesystems out there at the moment. Diversity is great of
course - keeps everyone on their toes, and there will be room for all of
the filesystems in the Linux distros of the future. I was a bit sad when
xiafs was dropped from the kernel, but I didn't worry too much about the
passing of extfs :)
Cheers,
-Rob
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