Erland wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Original poster here. > > Just thought I'd post back my success! :-) I went and bought a 500GB > external drive from the Sydney shop recommended above, then backed up > the whole corrupt partition (about 300GB) to the new drive, then > issued the command "sudo fsck" on the backup drive, said yes to all > the (scary) prompts - by the end of the process, I thought I'd lost it > all and it hadn't worked... then mounted it and everything was back, > all files recovered! Yay!
Next time, say 'sudo fsck -y /dev/sdXX' and you won't have to worry about the scary prompts - it says yes to all of them for you. ;-) Paul
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