Hello folks, I had an ext3 filesystem mounted as the root of a Linux MOO server. Unfortunately, the filesystem was on one of the infamous DTLA-3070xx drives - and the drive decided to fail at the worst moment it possibly could, trashing the filesystem fairly well. The situation is as follows: I used dd_rescue to create an image of what is left of the filesystem, but I ended up with some 65MB of 'holes' in the image. Among the 'holes' is the sector that hosts a directory, /home/weyrmount/MOO (indeed, on the original drive, trying to CD into that gives IO Error) That directory contained three files, plus an 'arch' directory. Now, while I understand that recovering the MOO dir itself is unrealistic, is there any way I could recover the arch dir - and the files therein? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Luigi Fabio - lfabio at smiling-web.com
On Feb 21, 2004 19:53 -0500, Luigi Fabio wrote:> I had an ext3 filesystem mounted as the root of a Linux MOO server. > Unfortunately, the filesystem was on one of the infamous DTLA-3070xx > drives - and the drive decided to fail at the worst moment it > possibly could, trashing the filesystem fairly well. > The situation is as follows: I used dd_rescue to create an image of > what is left of the filesystem, but I ended up with some 65MB of > 'holes' in the image. Among the 'holes' is the sector that hosts a > directory, /home/weyrmount/MOO (indeed, on the original drive, trying > to CD into that gives IO Error) > That directory contained three files, plus an 'arch' directory. Now, > while I understand that recovering the MOO dir itself is unrealistic, > is there any way I could recover the arch dir - and the files > therein? Any help will be greatly appreciated.If you run e2fsck on the copied device, you should find any unattached items put into lost+found. Of course, it is also possible that files in "arch" are also corrupted, depedning on location of 65MB of holes. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
On 21 Feb 2004 at 18:56, Andreas Dilger wrote:> If you run e2fsck on the copied device, you should find any unattached > items put into lost+found. Of course, it is also possible that files > in "arch" are also corrupted, depedning on location of 65MB of holes.Interestingly enough, in lost+found there is no trace of arch - or of any of the 18xx files it contained. There is, however, a subdir of arch - I have to wonder, it seems very curious that only that single file out of 1800 managed to survive. I do get asked by fsck to clear a few inodes with too many errors at the beginning - would answering 'no' there help, perhaps?> Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/Regards, Luigi Fabio - lfabio at smiling-web.com