[CS-FSLUG] Ext2 recovery: a study in desperation

[Jukka]

On 6/29/05, keltik at nycap.rr.com <keltik at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of or has experience with any simple-to-use ext2 recovery tools.  I don't
> know what happened, but a couple of days ago my server's hard drive decided not to boot (Grub error 17).
> Apparently the partition table is now unreadable, and I'm not sure what shape my data is in.  It was a Fedora
> Core 3 system, FWIW.
> 
> I have the sickly drive now hooked up to a machine that has both Windows 98 and SUSE 9.2, so I could use a
> recovery program that works on either OS.  On Linux, I tried e2salvage, but that didn't compile; I also tried
> e2retrieve, but I guess I don't understand how it works.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Kathy "I backed up everything EXCEPT..." Montgomery
> 
Hi Kathy!

I do not have much experience of filesystem recovery, but I hope you
find this useful:
http://www.themanualpage.org/man/man8/debugfs.8.php

Blessings,
Jukka