Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:49:25
Message-Id: 1204368553.5915.4.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition by Jonathan Haws
1 On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:27 -0700, Jonathan Haws wrote:
2 > I am having a major problem right now with my laptop.
3 >
4 > I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD.
5 > However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made
6 > and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3
7 > filesystem is corrupt and had errors and I would have to run fsck manually.
8 >
9 > When I ran fsck it told be that about every inode was invalid and that Group X
10 > had all sorts of other problems (I can't remember every little detail).
11 >
12 > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without
13 > reinstalling from scratch?
14 >
15 > Thanks!
16 >
17 > Jon
18 >
19
20 You could try testdisk. Maybe it can recover. Or try mke2fs -S

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