ext2 Advice

[Scott.Prive at storigen.com (Scott Prive)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Whitfield [mailto:john_whitfield at email.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: ext2 Advice
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> As for the original poster, I wish we had something better 
> than lame advice about what he should have done.  Trouble is 
> that when the disk goes bad it's pretty much too late.

The data is still there, we just have no way to address files, right?

If so, and if the data is faily "consistent" with a defined header and footer -- like his JPEGs -- couldn't dd the data off and into a new file? Assuming the files are contiguous...

I'm probably underestimating the problems that disk fragmentation would pose, and completely ignorant of other greater problems, but those are my thoughts.

-Scott



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