[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

[Mike Lockhart]

Hrm, this thread did go off topic, but then what would be the point of
the ALE list if it didn't? ;)

My home directory (/home/mike) had all sorts of crap in it, mp3's, text
files, images, mail files, and so forth.

I tried a program called gpart to see if it could recover the data by
recovering/rewriting the partition tables, no luck there, and I probably
won't have time to work on the drive this week, though I plan on getting
back to it this weekend.  

I'm going to do a lot of reasearch this week, see where things go this
weekend, and if all goes well and I get my data back, probably write up
a case study and post it on my site to help people who encounter similar
issues like I have.  We'll see what happens.  I'll keep you all posted. 

- mike

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:41, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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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