ext2 or 3 recovery

[Michael Richter]

What a coincidence.  I had something equally bad happen to me -- only it
wasn't USB externals....

Anyway, as I documented in my little rant on the subject a few days ago, I
found a tool that was extremely helpful at finding lost partitions.  It's a
bit time-consuming to use
gpart<http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/>but it does
the job.  I found other
tools <http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html> that didn't cope very well
with my specific situation.  They may work for you, though, given that
you're unlikely to have extended partitions and stuff on an external, right?

On 03/01/06, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My laptop crashed, and I had to do a hard reboot on it.  It had
> several usb drives attached all ext3 file systems.  on the next reboot
> and upon plugging in one of the drives, I got a mount error and ran
> fsck.ext3 -y on the drive.
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