[mdlug] Recovering damaged EXT2

[David McMillan]

Michael ORourke wrote:
> Dave,
>
> If you were using the external USB drive in a pseudo RAID-1 configuration, 
> then all you data would be on the other drive (internal), and there would be 
> no need to recover anything.  And I suspect that the new USB drive would 
> have some sort of warranty, so if you can't get it working again, then just 
> send it back for a replacement.  Or am I missing something?
>
>   
    The *new* drive is fine.  It was the surviving member of the old 
pair that hit the floor.  And due to the timing, I can't be positive 
that the rsync job between the old and new drives completed fully (I've 
been having some odd luck with rsync -- even before when the drives were 
all good, it kept reporting certain files as "missing" even though I was 
always able to access those files and work with them from other 
applications).