[CoLoCo] Urgent Help Needed: File system screw-up

[Joey Stanford]

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On 8/22/07, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> I looked into FIRE but I don't know which app to use. I figure the
> best way to do this would dd /dev/sda12 to /dev/another in case I mess
> up, so I can always restart. I also got told by a friend to use
> OnTrack, which is a program I have used to recover NTFS and FAT32
> partitions which has done pretty well. How good is the ext3/2 support?
> Also, since all of the data from the original partition is still
> there, is there any tool to remake the file table (or whatever ext2
> uses) from the data there? I mean, the data is untouched and pristine.
> It hasn't been written over except for a small part of the file table.
> Thanks for all of the help you have given me so far, I really
> appreciate it. I just want to get this right, since there are a lot of
> important files on there.
> Comrade Ringo Kamens
>
>
> On 8/22/07, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 09:16 -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > > I'll just chime in with one more thing that won't help now, but may
> > > provide the right sort of motivatation to do the work that has to be
> > > done before the next time....
> >
> > I really feel for the OP.  I once had a boss that decided that / was
> > getting too full, so he tried to move /usr to a new partition.  After
> > moving copying all the files into the nearest black hole, he
> > deleted /usr, and rebooted.  It was an ugly sight :-)
> >
> > But the OP brings up two very important issues: First, never mess with
> > your drive unless the data is expendable or backed up.  Second, NEVER
> > MESS WITH YOUR DRIVE UNLESS THE DATA IS EXPENDABLE OR BACKED UP!!!
> >
> > My advice to fix:
> >    * Do not trust that partition any longer
> >
> >    * If the partition is mounted, umount it, and remove any entry in
> >      /etc/fstab
> >
> >    * Run down to Office Depot and get yourself a Western Digital
> >      MyBook.
> >
> >    * use dd to bit-copy that partition into a file on the external hard
> >      drive (# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/rescue
> >             # dd if=/dev/hda12 of=/mnt/rescue/backup.img)
> >
> >    * mount the copy via loopback and copy anything you want to try and
> >      keep (# mount -o loop,ro /mnt/rescue/backup.img /mnt/rescue2
> >            # <copy commands to rescue data>
> >            # umount /mnt/rescue2)
> >
> >    * kill the untrustworthy partition (# mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda12)
> >
> >    * never do this again, lol (easy to say since "I've NEVER done
> >      anything like that", he says tongue firmly in cheek :-D )
> >
> > Good luck
> >
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