[ale] superblock recovery?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Apr 26 20:11:27 EDT 2005


Preston Boyington wrote:
> I have a laptop drive in a USB enclosure that has a partition
> formatted FAT32.  Against my better judgment I allowed a friend to
> borrow it to carry some large TIFF files to his office.  Now that I
> have it back XP and Linux can't see anything on the partition (he
> assures me that it worked fine with him).
> 
> Although I (fortunately) don't have anything of great value on the
> drive, I was wondering if there was a way I could "rebuild" the
> superblock without losing the data.  Worst case I will format the
> drive and restore the files from my backups, but I would like to know
> of a better way.

What distro and version?

Where'd you bury your ex-friend's body?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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