mount help on bad drive.

[Benjamin Scott]

On Aug 3 at 11:46pm, pete snider wrote:
> I've tried various sb numbers which were 8192 x n +1, without success.  Any 
> other ideas of how to mount the partition or copied the readable data?

On Aug 4 at 7:21am, psnider at adelphia.net wrote:
> Yes, I tried without any luck.  If I remember correctly, ext2 did recognize 
> the partition.

   How are you doing on this?  Did you get anywhere using "ext2" as the 
filesystem type?  If you mount it read-only as ext2, you should be able to 
read most data, one way or another.

   Take a look at the output of

 	fdisk -l /dev/sda

and make sure your partition table is still sane.  If the disk is starting to 
fail, other things could be going wrong.

   Try running "e2fsck -fn /dev/sda2", which will run a read-only check on the 
filesystem.  What does it say?

   Were you able to use "dd" to make an image of the bad disk/partition on 
another, good disk?

-- 
Ben <dragonhawk at iname.com>