From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVHr3-0002Di-QN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:53:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36289E0575; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp3.clear.net.nz (smtp3.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.64]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB886E0575 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmori.markir.net (121-72-86-144.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.86.144]) by smtp3.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JX100BHS6PC7O00@smtp3.clear.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:53:38 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:53:36 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition In-reply-to: <200802291227.35724.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <47C8C530.3070008@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200802291227.35724.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) X-Archives-Salt: a7b209c1-2d07-497a-845c-61c63dbdb8b7 X-Archives-Hash: 36efa6c499f0f702ba0bedbce71bfc0c Jonathan Haws wrote: > I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. > However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made > and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 > filesystem is corrupt and had errors and I would have to run fsck manually. > > When I ran fsck it told be that about every inode was invalid and that Group X > had all sorts of other problems (I can't remember every little detail). > > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without > reinstalling from scratch? > > Hmm - I would have thought it would... but for future reference I would recommend using a more Linux friendly (and reliable) tool like dumpe2fs ... Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list