Re: No success repairing my ext4 file system so far, PLEASE HELP!

On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:31:58 PM UTC+5:30, Doug Freyburger wrote:
Harry wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Harry wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Harry wrote:

/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux

It used to be /boot so it
might not be of interest to you. Easily rebuilt.

Thanks for reminding.

Automatically built data.

Didn't understand.

Checking back to see if this point ended up clear. You wanted to
recover user data from that drive. Partition sda1 contains /boot that
does not contain any user data. That's why I said to ignore it for your
purposes.

Yes, I had understood this part fine.

The mount point /boot contains new and old versions of the kernel and
other boot support data. Its contents are automatically generated at
system build time and later when kernel upgrades/patches are applied.
It's very interesting when your purpose is recovering a system to
bootable status. Since your purpose was not to recover the system to
bootable status you could ignore it. A matter of context, what you
wanted to do.

In your last post, I was not sure what you meant by 'data' in "Automatically built data". Now, I understand.

Given all of the other discussion I suspect its contents are intact and
you would have been able to render the system bootable at some point
using its contents. You have a different boot disk so that was not your
goal.

Yes, that's correct.

Thanks a ton, Doug, for being patient with my questions!
.

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