Lost a hard drive!? Help.

[Steven Elling]

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 00:16, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> I tried to install recover, but it doesn't seem to like ext3 partitions. 
> I think it's looking for ext2 exclusively.  Anyone know how to get it to
> do ext3?  I also found a file undelete in Midnight Commander.  I'm trying
> that now.  It's taking a really long time.  I'll let you know how that
> comes out.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

An ext3 partition is just ext2 with journaling added on top.  I don't see 
why it would complain, unless, it doesn't know that ext3 is the same as 
ext2 under the hood.

Try and mount the partition as ext2 and see if recover will work then.