On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 23:19, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've got a superblock corruption and cannot read the partition. > I shall have to reinstall Debian, which I can do on anothe part of the > disk, but there are some vital files in the corrupted partition. > > Will any tools allow me to retrieve these, either from Linux or DOS? If you haven't rebooted the machine yet, do an fdisk -l to get your partition data's info. Remember them so you can recreate your partition table. If the filesystems haven't got corrupted, you can try using gpart to estimate your former partition layout, then use an fdisk program (fdisk, cfdisk,sfdisk, though I found parted to be more powerful than the others) to recreate your former partition table. That is if your problem only corrupted your present partition table. Don't do a mkfs on the affected disk else all might be lost. Chances are your data are still there. I'd suggest you get a recent, statically-linked version of gpart and parted to do the task of recovering your partition data. For instances of filesystem corruption, I recently read of one tool (provided by some guy from the kernel mailing list), though it's only for ext2. -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone pfalcone@free.net.ph GnuPG KeyID 0xEADFF6F4 ___________________________________________________________________ "You are a software developer. On the cutting edge. You need the latest and greatest in computer technology. That's why you use, uh, Unix. Yeah. Anyway, even if your operating system harks back to the 1960s, you definitely can't live without the most modern software development and management systems available" -- quote adapted pment and management systems available" -- quote adapted
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