Can't mount /home anymore

[Nickel Cadmium]

Hi!

Thanks a lot for your mail: I managed to recover my files!
I don't really know how debugfs works but with the rdump command it could
copy all my files to a new partition.

Cheers,
Cd

On 1/29/07, Evgeni <evgeni at scientist.com> wrote:
>
>
> fsck can't help you because bitmaps are damaged,
> but there is a way to recover your files.
>
> 1. Prepair enough space on another partition
> and create directory where to put recovered files.
>
> 2. Boot linux.
> (for example use Rescue CD or Knoppix Live CD)
>
> 3. Run debugfs in catastrophic mode (-c option) :
> debugfs -c /dev/hdaX
> catastrophic mode does not read inode and group bitmaps
> if your superblock is damaged consider using -s (superblock) and -b (block
> size) options
> to specify backup superblock
> (the block size and superblock locations can be found by dumpe2fs)
>
> 4. Inside debugfs shell run:
> rdump directory_to_recover directory_for_recovered_files
>    directory_to_recover is in damaged partition
>    directory_for_recovered_files is in your active partition (from step 1
> above)
>
> for example:
>    rdump /home /tmp/recovery
> This will copy /home directory and all it's content including
> subdirectories
> and files to /tmp/recovery.
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