System Recovery

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Michael ODonnell
<michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> ... unless you want to do (or more likely, pay for) some
> nasty by-hand salvage...  :-/

  That actually raises a good point: If this filesystem had valuable
unique data on it, and you don't have backups, then you should stop
what you're doing, shut off the power, pull the disk out of the
system, and mail it off to a data recovery specialist.  Misguided
repair efforts can make salvage efforts harder or impossible.  Such
specialists charge hundreds or thousands of dollars, but that can be
cheap in some situations.

  I've been assuming there's nothing that valuable on the disk in
question, but we all know about assuming...

-- Ben