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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] corrupted reiserfs partition
From:       "Matt T." <Matt () Boons ! net>
Date:       2003-04-09 9:54:15
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On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:32, Henry Harpending wrote:
> I recently had my hard disk go bad.  It was set up as /boot in partition
> 0, swap in partition 1, and root in partition 2 formatted with reiserfs.
> The failure was that partition 2, the root partition, could not be read
> during boot.
>
> I installed another hard disk, reinstalled my system, and I would like
> very much to recover some of the files on the failed disk.  It is now
> /dev/hdb, I can mount partition 0, but I cannot mount partition 2 where
> all the data are.
>
> Is there any method or trick to recover any of the data in the partition
> given that I am unable to mount it?
>
> Thanks, Henry Harpending

Hi Henry,

Next time start a new thread with your question please!

Did you ever try to repair it with a fsck / fsck.reiserfs ?

This always worked fine for me, I used it a few times already, all data back, 
no need to reinstall. 

HTH,
Matt T.

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