[Gloucs] recovering rieserfs

[Mark]

And having now re-read the email, emails shouldn't be a problem to get
off the disk..if they are still on the magnetic media we can most likely
get them off it.

M

-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:gloucs-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: 19 September 2002 19:41
To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Gloucs] recovering rieserfs


Im a forensics consultant if that helps, what type of files are you
wanting off the disk?

-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:gloucs-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of David Greenaway
Sent: 19 September 2002 19:49
To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Gloucs] recovering rieserfs




Hi

Any experts on recovering data from dead file systems out there?

I have reiserfs on the / partition of my laptop. Last night the system
hung (it does that sometimes) but on reboot I got a kernel panic with
the message that the journal size was 0 rather than the expected 8192,
to me this doesn't sound good. I got a rescue system up and can mount
all the other partitions (where thankfully most of my data is) but
couldn't persuade reiserfsck to mend /. I'm going to reinstall, but
before scrapping the partition I'd like to get hold of a my last 2
months of e-mails (I know I've been a bad boy, I should have been doing
more backups) and one or two other small text files.

I'm resigned to using dd and grep to ging the sectors containing the
data, but before I do that I thought I'd see if there were any other
suggestions.

If it's at all relervent I'm (not) running suse 8.0 san a 2.4.? kernel.

Thanks for your time.

BTW enjoy heading about the meetings, unfortunately I'm busy Tuesday
evenings so I can't make it.

David Greenaway 



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