On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:52:38PM +1100, Bruce wrote: > You might like to try a live distro, such as PCLINUXOS, with which I have no > problems mounting "foreign" drives. Basically, the live distro runs from the > CD and you muck around with mount arguments (someone else may have a more > structured approach here) until it can read the drives. Once you have that > its pretty easy to copy precious stuff to a USB drive or etc. > > I have used this several times to do exactly that. It seems that the live > distros are better placed to do this than installed systems.
If you're going to use a live cd he might as well use the fedora live/rescue disk. Re lvm well I've found it it be pretty useful. It's not that complicated, and you can selectively mirror more fine-grainedly which I like. The issue here is lack of backups, not so much anything else. Sorry to be blunt, but I've had the same (actually worse) situation (lost about 8 months worth of baby photos) and have been cursing myself ever since. EVERYBODY BACK UP NOW. -- (but read Mary's note/presentation too) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
