Disk Recovery suggestions welcomed...

[Don Levey]

dsr wrote:

> See if this works:
>
> e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hda3
>
> Use e2fsck -n to see where extra superblocks would be stored,
> and pass those locations on to -b.
>

I'm assuming that you're talking about mke2fs -n for finding the number?

> Get a 60GB or larger drive, make a partition on it the same size
> or slightly larger than hda3, and copy the original partition over to
> it directly:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdd1
>
> -dsr-
> __________

I've got a spare drive of appropriate size just waiting for this.  I'll give
it a go tonight, I hope.  Thanks!
 -Don