I just totally KO'd my system. I jumped into knoppix and did mke2fs -c /dev/hda5
Which checks partitions for bad sectors in apparantly the read only mode, but for some reason it decided to write the inode table. Once completed is left a msg saying "this will be rechecked after 27 mounts or 18 months (or similar), use tune2fs to over write this". I knew this would have no effect as it was in knoppix. So I reboot and I get a kernel panic saying there is no "init=". I reboot back into knoppix mount hda5 to find nothing more then a lost+found directory. Awesome. My understanding is that if the inode table is the only thing rewritten my files do exist. What recovery tools have people used/heard of. Please reply all as this email is not on the slug list. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Let them hate, so long as they fear" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
