[mdlug] e2fsck - What to do?

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Stan Green

> The question is am I on the right track to recover this drive 
> and if so what should I answer to the last question.

 If you can hook up some storage, you could use "dd" to take an image of
the partition as it exists now. That way, you can make copies and try a couple
different ways of recovering. The command would be like "dd if=/dev/[the device,
e.g. sdb5] of=[filename]".

 Also, it does you no good now, but in the future, a journaling filesystem like
ext3 or XFS or JFS handles these situations better. :-<

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                              (313) 227-2317

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