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[ale] superblock recovery?
- Subject: [ale] superblock recovery?
- From: esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)
- Date: Tue Apr 26 20:11:27 2005
- In-reply-to: <ED82B8B59EA2D44C9E64E228028E4B34029CC6@poly_ethylene.corp.polyengineering.com>
- References: <ED82B8B59EA2D44C9E64E228028E4B34029CC6@poly_ethylene.corp.polyengineering.com>
Preston Boyington wrote:
> I have a laptop drive in a USB enclosure that has a partition
> formatted FAT32. Against my better judgment I allowed a friend to
> borrow it to carry some large TIFF files to his office. Now that I
> have it back XP and Linux can't see anything on the partition (he
> assures me that it worked fine with him).
>
> Although I (fortunately) don't have anything of great value on the
> drive, I was wondering if there was a way I could "rebuild" the
> superblock without losing the data. Worst case I will format the
> drive and restore the files from my backups, but I would like to know
> of a better way.
What distro and version?
Where'd you bury your ex-friend's body?
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Until later, Geoffrey