Disk Recovery suggestions welcomed...

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:15:18PM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> dsr wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:46:13PM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> 
> I got the same output from e2fsck regardless of the alternate superblock I
> provided.  Looks like I'll be pulling off the data using dd, and then
> working with a utility such as spinrite.  Interestingly, I saw no problems
> in the logs at all from smartd, so it looks like the rest of the drive
> should be OK, right?  Or should I just replace the whole thing?

You should assume the disk is ready to die. If you've got an
application which can use a lot of unreliable storage -- image
editing or music or movie editing, for example -- you could keep
the drive around for that until it fails.

I second the recommendation for using testdisk, by the way.

Now is a good time to ask yourself: is Linux software RAID right
for me? The cost of disks is relatively low, and disk mirroring
is remarkably effective when coupled with a decent UPS...

-dsr-