[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Jan 20 13:41:46 EST 2003


Since I kinda helped get this thread off track, I figured it be nice if 
I try and bring it back.

Was there other 'stuff' on the drive, other then the mail files?  I 
assume so.  Any idea how much other 'stuff' there was and what type of 
'stuff' it was (binary, text, images..)

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> It doesn't sound good. It sounds like it is not an ext3 drive. Could it
> be reiserfs or XFS or something else?
> 
> Try a fdisk to take a look at the partition structure. Be sure not to do
> anything other than look around!
> 
> Is it possible that the old work drive was just a temp space on a
> netboot setup?
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:14, Mike Lockhart wrote:
> 
>>unfortunately no.
>>
>>On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:09, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>>Mike Lockhart wrote:
>>>
>>>>40 gig drive, but only about 2 gigs are used on it as far as data goes. 
>>>>I ran fsck.ext3 and it repaired a few things, gave me a lost+found dir
>>>>on the drive (/dev/hdd2) when i mount it now, but still no data, though
>>>>grep still returns that i found a matching binary file to my search
>>>>strings.  *shrug*  :)
>>>
>>>Was there anything in the lost+found directory?
>>>
>>>
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