Topic: SMESERVER data Recovery info

[xjjk16x]

I recently had a hard drive fail. The hard drive is still usuable but it has bad clusters and gives crc errors occasionaly.

I want to retrieve the data off with certain data recovery utilities.

My questions are:


What is the default directory where the ibay's data is stored.

What file system type is the data. EXT2/3   FAT32/ntfs?

Is the filesystem different for the ibay and ext2/3 for everything else?

How many partitions are there by default? which partition should i consider looking in first??

The reason I am asking is that I have run a file recovery utility and i can see the entire structure. I can see the various parent directories.  I looked in /home/e-smiths/...   no mention of a files folder.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

[mmccarn]

The root filesystem on my 7.1.3 server (installed from the 7.1 iso) is ext3.

ibays are in /home/e-smith/files/ibays

Data recovery may be tricky as the disks are originally configured using raid - even with only one disk, I think...

When I run 'fsck -AN' I get:
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 /dev/main/root
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /boot] fsck.ext3 /dev/md1

(I don't know if this is useful...)

[bunkobugsy]

Just plug your drive into a windows machine and using
http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/explore2fs-1.08beta9.zip
you can acces your ext3/lvm2 volumes and copy out your data.
This was rather hard for me to find when I needed it myself