Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

Linas Žvirblis <0x0007 <at> gmail.com> writes:
You did mount it read-only as in...
mount -o ro /dev/disk /mnt/location
...did not you?

I didn't think of that. I had a line in fstab to mount the partition
automatically with defaults. I have since removed that line.

The "testdisk" package, I have already mentioned contains a tool called
"PhotoRec" [1] that might just do the trick. There is also "foremost"
package that may be useful.

THANKS! photorec did the trick. I have now recovered most of the files I
hadn't backed up. photorec is impressive in that it recovers much more than
image files.

Some of the jpg files are corrupted. Interestingly gimp displays a preview of
the images in the open dialog box, but won't open them. Any ides on how to
salvage corrupt jpg images?

I have posted a sample image and screenshots of the gimp screens at:
http://legomenon.org/~gary/found/
7628.jpg 05-Jun-2006 10:28 732k
gimp_message.jpg 05-Jun-2006 10:38 31k
gimp_preview.jpg 05-Jun-2006 10:20 67k

--
Gary Parker
Cayuse, OR


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx