Hi, Something happened, I don't know really what. I was backing up 250MB directory from hdc2 (fat32), mounted as /hdc2 to /hdb1 (fat32) using commands: cd /hdc2 tar cvf /hdb1/copy.tar . (I don't see anything wrong in that.) After archive creation I have found destroyed hda3 (sorry, I don't remember messages - it was big shock for me). I lost 14 days of my work. (Yes, my /home was next to backup ...) Could somebody can tell me where I can read about recovering (rather very) damaged e2fs partition ? First, I've made a copy (dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/copy/hda_3 ...). Next, I was tried e2fsck which tell me that there is bad magic... and to use -b 8193, etc. I've tried next 6 values (n*8192)+1 seeking good superblock. Then I've made shorst script to scan (sequentially) few thousands of values starting at 32765 to find valid superblock. (Exactly - its still running up to 2000000). As I must recover few text files (and few rather nonimportant graphics) I have done strings /copy/hda_3 > file and started manually (how to say) fetching my files from this 800MB big one ... Unfortunatelly I have no idea how to use debugfs in such situation. Could someone help me ? Kindly regards, Blizbor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
