Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?
Take a look at e2salvage <http://e2salvage.sourceforge.net/>.
It worked well for me in similar situations.
John
On Friday 08 October 2004 03:04 pm, tripolar wrote:
> It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a
> knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks.
> my hard drive 3 partitions I wish to make backups of. After googling I have
> found several options- one being
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=noerror,sync
> I have a new 160G hard drive.
> Here is my plan
> install new hard drive ( I already have partioned with fdisk & used
> mkfs.reiserfs ), put near-dead hd into machine then boot into knoppix live
> cd. Use dd if=/dev/hda .... etc
> I have no clue how much life is left in the old one and I dont want to make
> it work any harder than just getting files copied to new disk.
> Are there any arguements to boot knoppix with to prevent old disk from
> spinning up until need be?
> dd_rescue is also on this knoppix cd. Is that a better option than dd
> if=.....etc?
> Before I pulled the old hd out I was unable to mount 2 partitions
> Input/output errors.
> Anyway to force a ro mount on a corrupted filesystem?
> Do I need to mount those partitions to do a dd if= .... ?
> The reason I ask here is because I feel it may already be too late for much
> of the data and that I have very limited time to save the data.
> Hoping I can get the most efficient & best options from this group.
> Any tips would be appreciated.
> thanks
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