Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:07:05 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: fs corruption recovery? |
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On Jan 08, 2002 21:52 -0500, Kervin Pierre wrote: > I install and used 2.4.17 for about a week before my filesystem > corrupted. I've tried 'fsck -a' but it complains that there was no > valid superblock found.
Try "e2fsck -B 4096 -b 32768 <device>" instead.
> Are there any tools or techniques that will recover data from the > corrupted filesystem even if there isn't a valid superblock? Or is > there a way to write a temporary superblock so I can access the > information on the disk?
The ext2 format (includes ext3) has backup superblocks for just this reason.
> Lastly, if all else fails I'm going to try sending the drive one of > those 'file recovery companies'. Does anyone have a recommendation for > a particular company? I'm guessing that there'll be a few that wouldn't > know what to do with a ext3 partition.
Is the data really that valuable, and you don't have a backup? It may cost you several thousand dollars to do a recovery from such a company. Yet, it isn't worth doing backups, it appears.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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