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On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:01, Mick wrote: |
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> ... Once or twice |
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> things went hairy and I would get a message similar to yours. On |
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> these rare occasions I booted with a LiveCD and with the partitions |
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> unmounted I ran --check, then --fix-fixable and finally |
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> --rebuild-tree. You may want to use an external drive with dd to |
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> image the current / partition and do all your recovery work on that. |
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> If you don't care too much about the risk of catastrophic failure then |
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> just run --rebuild-tree with a LiveCD and see what you get. |
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That's a great idea. I'm (now) religious about backing up my |
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customers' computers, often using dd like this, but for some reason it |
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hadn't yet occurred to me today. |
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Stroller. |
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