Re,

> > I made the first step. Here is the last daily report for the FS:
> > /dev/sd1a     1994641  1365918   528990    72%    /home
>=20
> cool. how many partitions you had on that drive?

Only one...

> > Now, the result of dumpfs /dev/sd1a
> >
> > [root@azrael root]$ dumpfs /dev/sd1a | more
> > endian  big-endian
> > magic   11954   time    Wed Jul 31 10:19:33 2002
> > cylgrp  dynamic inodes  4.4BSD  fslevel 3       softdep disabled
> > nbfree  156159  ndir    2334    nifree  475699  nffree  4068
> > ncg     403     ncyl    6445    size    2062368 blocks  1994641
>                                           ^^^^^^^
>=20
> this is size in kilobytes, disklabel uses sectors =3D 1/2 kB
>=20
> so your partition a size is 4124736
>=20
> if a starts at 0, next partition will start at 4124736

Yes, it is the full disk, but when I tried to mount the FS, I got an =
error message (:-()

mount_ffs: /dev/sd1a on /mnt: incorrect super block

I tried to make an fsck (I have a dd of sd1d partition) and the result =
of the mount is equivalent.


> BTW if you have your data here think about buying some backup device.
> used SCSI DDS-1 drives cost no more than 150PLN in poland (about 35$).
> avoid HP, sony, wangdat works fine. don't forget to get cleaning tape
> too!!

Sure, I'll buy one in a near future.

Franck