[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

[Geoffrey]

Mike Lockhart wrote:
> Here's the issue in some form of detail.  I left a job back in Oct. and
> took the drive w/me since it has all my email for 7 months, work files,
> etc.  Just hooked the drive up the other day, and it seems nothing is on
> there.  When i did "mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd2 /mnt/hd", it mounted fine,
> but "ls" shows no files.  The partitions seem to be fine also.

that's wierd.  Are you sure it's being mounted?  df shows all the disk 
is available.

I still believe you'll have a hard time recovering, but it's likely you 
could with a combination of dd and grep.  Mail files are pretty easily 
identified by their contents.


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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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