Corrupted Filesystem * IDEAS *

[John C. Archambeau]

peter at ontmoh.UUCP (Peter Renzland) writes:
>John C. Archambeau writes:
>[...]
>> If your root file system has the the bad superblock and reading the backup
>> superblock(s) just doesn't help.  I am sorry to say that your root file system
>> is gone.  
>[...]
>
>Fortunately for those with the small misfortune of having lost a superblock,
>and for those who earn a living doing data rescue, things aren't quite as bad
>as all that.  Superblocks contain very little that's necessary, and nothing
>that can't be reconstructed from an otherwise intact file system.  Don't give
>up hope, and don't believe all the gloomy things you read on the net.

Problem is, if I'm not mistaken, you have to have a good superblock for fsck
to do its job in an acceptable manner.  Are there any publications on the
exact details on step by step recovery of a Unix file system that fsck can't
salvage with any level of success?
 
     // JCA

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