Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:08:20 -0800 | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> | Subject | HD Corruption, recovering I-Nodes ? |
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Hi everybody,
First of all, I'm not currently on the list (but will read the archive), so please cc me for faster dialog...
My boss is using a high end HP Kayak workstation (Pentium III, adaptec + NCR SCSI adapters with only one disk on the Adaptec, ...) with Mandrake 6.1 distro (standard Mandrake kernel 2.2.9 + SMP). The box is used as a desktop (light load, no reboots). This morning he rebooted the machine and discover that some files were missings. Basically, all the files that he has touched in the last 3 weeks (10 Nov) have gone ! C programs, compiled files, boomark file, ... Of course, no backups. He is not very happy...
When I looked in the logs, the shutdown seem to have been clean (I see things getting killed, but when the box rebooted fsck did find that the disks were not umounted cleanly. Then, while doing the fsck, for each of the files, it complain about it like this : Entry 'XXX' in XXX (XXX) has unused/deleted inode XXX. CLEARED. Basically, there are two pages of this, and all the precious files have been "cleared". A massacre... However, during the 3 weeks, my boss was able to read/compile all those files and work with them normally, so I believe that only the metadata was corrupted by the data itself was OK.
Is there any tool/command under Linux enabling to inspect the content of an inode and dumping it in a file ? I believe that this may allow us to recover a large portion of those files.
Thanks...
Jean
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