Jerry McBride babbled on about: > > I've had the experience where a root system running ext3 was so clobbered > that it had to be accessed via a boot floppy. The only rescue floppy I had > on hand did not have an fsck thas was able to recover the ext3 system... > > Bingo... a big problem, yes? After upgrading the utils on the floppy, I was > able to fsck.ext3 the partition in question and all data was recoverable. > > That was my point, sorry I wasn't clear enough in the begining.
ah! ok. I see what you mean. I *thought* you menat the rescue floppy kernel didn't know ext3... I follow you now -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf /* * For moronic filesystems that do not allow holes in file. * We may have to extend the file. */ 2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
