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[rikona]

Hello Liam,

Saturday, May 18, 2013, 7:16:31 AM, Liam wrote:

> On 17 May 2013 21:06, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> Would that fix a USB that has been improperly disconnected and now
>> does not work?

> Should do, if the drive can be recovered. That is what fsck is for -
> fixing corrupted filesystems. It's its sole purpose.

I probably did not phrase the question quite right. I am assuming that
the USB problem is that the final write to the disk did not happen,
and the disk has been left in an odd, nonfunctional state. The state
may be changed to something that allows the disk to operate, but will
the disk still be missing the data that was not written to the disk? I
don't understand journals, and perhaps this data could be recovered
when the disk is fixed. Is that possible?

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 rikona