filesystems (was Data Recovery: professionals familiar with ext3)

[Paul Gear]

Erland wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Original poster here.
> 
> Just thought I'd post back my success! :-) I went and bought a 500GB
> external drive from the Sydney shop recommended above, then backed up
> the whole corrupt partition (about 300GB) to the new drive, then
> issued the command "sudo fsck" on the backup drive, said yes to all
> the (scary) prompts - by the end of the process, I thought I'd lost it
> all and it hadn't worked... then mounted it and everything was back,
> all files recovered! Yay!

Next time, say 'sudo fsck -y /dev/sdXX' and you won't have to worry
about the scary prompts - it says yes to all of them for you.  ;-)

Paul
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