[CentOS] Drive recovery?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Tue May 10 20:00:30 UTC 2011


Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> On 5/10/2011 12:30 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
>> mke2fs -n /dev/hde1 should list you the block addresses where copies of
>> the superblock would be found.
>>
>> Set ASB=any one of the alternate blocks listed.
>> Then, try mount -t ext3 -o sb=$ASB /dev/hda2 /mnt
> 
>      Thanks!  I will try that as soon as dd_rescue is done running ... 
> in about 16 hours or so.  Considering the data on this drive, I'm 
> willing to risk and try to copy everything off before forging ahead with 
> trying to mount the thing and possibly damaging it even more.

I will byte and actually say it: Use Backups for important data you can 
not afford to lose. rsync or similar tool can be used via cron to make 
sure important files are saved.

Ljubomir



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