Data recovery

[Evan Martin]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:35:46PM -0800, Jen Barrick wrote:
> It's been so long since we tried the image-over-to-BSD thing that I'm
> thinking I want to just start from the top.  So, anyone have suggestions
> on how to recover data from an IDE drive, formatted ext2 and running RH
> 7.2, that only works without bad noises if it's very very cool and then
> for only about 10 minutes? :/

Depending on how much data you need to grab, you should be able to
just mount the drive elsewhere and copy the data.

If you need to do some sort of fsck it gets a bit more tricky.  You may
be able to dd the partition data off of that drive and mount it with the
loop option.  The fsck(8) manpage indicates it only works with drives,
but then it mentions "loop" once or twice so you may be able to point it
at a file, too.

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      Evan Martin
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