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 =================================================