Ciaran Mulloy wrote:
> Hi,
> My reiser file system under Suse 9.2 got corrupted over the weekend and
> I am unable to retrieve any data from it. I am getting an Input /output
> error when I try to copy files to a new partition on a separate harddisk
> using Knoppix or Ubuntu. Two separate partitions, the / and /home, got
> corrupted at the same time. As they are both on the same hard disk it
> may be a disk fault.
>>> Because it's on a home machine I never bothered to do a backup. So no
> its sinking in how much data I am in danger of losing.
>>> Is there a systematic way of being able to recover as much of the files
> as possible? I am very apprehensive of about trying to recover the files
> as there is a danger of making the current problem worse.
Asking the obvious...
Have you tried to fsck ?
/asks google.
Try :
http://www.martian.org/marty/archives/000888.html
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