[mdlug] Recovering damaged EXT2

[David McMillan]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> David McMillan wrote:
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>>     I'm probably going to try that, but these are 1TB drives that were 
>> at around 90% capacity.  I don't know if the freeze will last long 
>> enough to do a full rsync on that much data.
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> Well then, keep it cool.
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> Plastic ziplock sandwich bag(*) full of ice
> 		on top of
> 	     damp wash cloth
> 		on top of
> 	    flaky disk drive
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    I'll have to pry them out of their enclosures, but that could work
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> (*) TEST FOR LEAKS!!!
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    Heh.  Yes, I suppose that would be kind of important.

    In the meantime, I tried a ddrescue on the "hit the floor" drive, 
and it got to 140GB before hitting an I/O error it can't seem to get past.