Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Helpplease!!

[Madison Kelly]

I haven't yet because I am pretty worried about doing anything potentially
destructive to the data...

Madison (who's been at it now for over 15h... )

> Have you tried using debugfs (part of e2fsprogs)?  It lets you tinker
> with the superblock manually.
>
> Also: happy birthday.
>
> JV
>
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:
>>   Well, the fact that I am posting this after 12:00am Sunday night (and
>> on
>> my birthday, to-boot!) should indicate just how dire the situation is...
>> I have had a drive failure on a server and I can no longer mount the
>> data partition on the hard drive (/dev/hda5 [ext3 under RH7.3]) because
>> the replacement server (Fedora Core 1) claims that the drive's
>> superblock is toast.
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