On Jul 13, 2005, at 02:21, Benjamin Scott wrote:
In other words, if I have my 3 TiB filesystem that sudden gets
truncated at 90 GiB, all the filesystem metadata that was past 90 GiB
is now gone, leaving a gaping hole in the filesystem's internal data
structures.
Right. If you assume a
Have you considered booting the laptop up with a Knoppix disk and
offloading the data to a network share? Or is the laptop itself dead?
-N
My brother's laptop HD is dying.. Anybody have a 2.5 to 3.5 HD adapter
so I can save the day and get the data off the drive..
Ohhh, that's a good idea.
The drive is starting to click, and being the typical computer user, he
has no backups.. It doesn't click often so there is probably hope to get
most of the stuff off before it totally dies off.
Have you considered booting the laptop up with a Knoppix disk and
Damn, it's DEAD!
That actually worked, I was able to mount it, but once I tried to go
anywhere on the drive I got the click of doom.
Ben or Tom, do you have the contact info of that hard drive place we
would send drives to for Net Tech. My brother wants to go that route,
the drive had all
On Jul 13 at 11:08am, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Right. If you assume a filesystem was truncated. I was assuming a bad
partition table lead mkfs to create an incorrect superblock which lead to an
inode with an invalid data block location.
mke2fs writes to the end of the device, so if the
