From: "kyle" Subject: Re: need help with getting into a corrupted sub directory Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:08:01 +0800 Message-ID: <00b601caa2f4$2564bf80$b902a8c0@kyle> References: <004d01caa172$8d846c10$6401a8c0@kyle> <27FC5E2E-2F85-478A-95F2-1B9ED9D07690@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: "Andreas Dilger" Return-path: Received: from mail.southa.com ([125.215.237.177]:45706 "HELO southa.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750863Ab0BAEOn (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:14:43 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > To get most of the data off the dying drive, use rsync -v, and create > a list > of files to exclude, when you detect they cause the drive to die. I need to get files from 'public/EL/', however, 'public' cause the drive die ........ > > > debugfs is your friend. It can open and list a directory by inode > number, and dump the files to another filesystem. Is it possible to get the inode number of 'public/EL' without hitting the 'public' which cause the drive die? Kyle