To continue the tale of trying to recover ext2 file system:

I have not yet come to the point of trying mke2fs with -S option.  But I 
discovered something called R-Linux a free recovery prog available at 
www.r-tt.com  It is part of a commercial product called R-Studio. These are 
both windows progs.  With R-Linux I was able to recover 70% of data from 
one partition but only 20% data from the more important partition. I know 
there must be a lot more of forensic-grade software around to do data 
recovery, but they are hard to come by.

Now I have come to a stage where I can at least run debugfs on the 
filesystem.. So let's see how this progresses. It's been quite a learning 
experience. Thanks for your  tips, Raj.

Leo

At 10:30 AM 4/23/2002, you wrote:

>     Leo> Already tried that. No go. Have you used the -S option with
>     Leo> mke2fs? or the -r option?  Any idea what situations these
>     Leo> options are able to handle successfully? Man pages recommends
>     Leo> -S option as a last ditch effort. Haven't tried that yet -
>     Leo> hoping that I have not reached the last ditch :-)
>
>Oops, I wouldn't use either of them until i wanted to trash my
>filesystem.  dd the FS onto a backup disk if you have it before
>running either of them.  I presume you're using the latest version of
>the e2progs package?


          ================================================
To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header
Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
          =================================================

Reply via email to