Re: ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-11-01 Thread tytso
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:41:57PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Since you have a filesystem > 500MB it will default to having 4kB blocks, > and the backup superblocks will be aligned on 32768 block boundaries. > Try "e2fsck -B 4096 -b 32768" (or 98304, 163840, 229376, 81920) to see > if that

Re: ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-10-25 Thread blizbor
Andreas Dilger wrote: > > You write: > There is a tool to recover the whole partition table, gpart, if > your partition table is corrupt. However, it sounds more like > just the filesystem is corrupt. Partition table seems well. I can mount other filesystems from that disk. > Since you have a

Re: ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-10-25 Thread Andreas Dilger
You write: > Could somebody can tell me where I can read about recovering > (rather very) damaged e2fs partition ? There is a tool to recover the whole partition table, gpart, if your partition table is corrupt. However, it sounds more like just the filesystem is corrupt. > First, I've made a

ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-10-25 Thread blizbor
Hi, Something happened, I don't know really what. I was backing up 250MB directory from hdc2 (fat32), mounted as /hdc2 to /hdb1 (fat32) using commands: cd /hdc2 tar cvf /hdb1/copy.tar . (I don't see anything wrong in that.) After archive creation I have found destroyed hda3 (sorry, I don't

ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-10-25 Thread blizbor
Hi, Something happened, I don't know really what. I was backing up 250MB directory from hdc2 (fat32), mounted as /hdc2 to /hdb1 (fat32) using commands: cd /hdc2 tar cvf /hdb1/copy.tar . (I don't see anything wrong in that.) After archive creation I have found destroyed hda3 (sorry, I don't

Re: ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-10-25 Thread Andreas Dilger
You write: Could somebody can tell me where I can read about recovering (rather very) damaged e2fs partition ? There is a tool to recover the whole partition table, gpart, if your partition table is corrupt. However, it sounds more like just the filesystem is corrupt. First, I've made a

Re: ext2fs disaster - how to recover some files ?

2000-10-25 Thread blizbor
Andreas Dilger wrote: You write: There is a tool to recover the whole partition table, gpart, if your partition table is corrupt. However, it sounds more like just the filesystem is corrupt. Partition table seems well. I can mount other filesystems from that disk. Since you have a