From: "kyle" Subject: Re: need help with getting into a corrupted sub directory Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:08:37 +0800 Message-ID: <00c201caa2f4$3aa7dd00$b902a8c0@kyle> References: <004d01caa172$8d846c10$6401a8c0@kyle> <27FC5E2E-2F85-478A-95F2-1B9ED9D07690@sun.com> <20100130174404.GC788@thunk.org> <573A48EF-7CE3-481D-935E-364506424D1F@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]:45708 "HELO southa.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750996Ab0BAEPU (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:15:20 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > Well, I thought the same thing initially, but like the poster I have a > drive which dies (locks up internally? I don't know) as soon as > certain files are accessed. Since I could get 95%+ of the files > using the "rsync -av --exclude-from {bad_file_list}" method, and the > files I couldn't recover were of marginal value, I did that, as it was > expedient. > 90% of files I need is inside a subdirectly 'public' which cannot be read ........ :( Kyle