ext2 from ppc unreadable in x86
 

Hi,

I've got critical data on an ibm deskstar 120GB drive. The drive was formated for ext2 and run in a Mac with gentoo ppc. The drive has one partition that was used for an rsync mirror via LAN. The drive in question:
hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5

The problems.
1. When attempting to mount the drive on an x86 machine the following errors are reported:
[root@parker parker]# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/mirror/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
FDISK REPORT
The Mac computer that this drive was used in is not in my possesion. So, I've put the mirror and its accompanying OS drive into a different Mac, booted and found the partition in place and the data is readable. However, attempts to rsync from this machine causes the box to thrash memory or something to the point where the box must be power cycled. I can get a terminal to appear but attempts to login fail by never going beyound the user name.

Apparently I've got three options; A, figure out how to mount this drive B, figure out why the new PPC machine thrashes. A third option could be to 'dd' an image of mirror drive to another. I don't know if dd would gather the data from a drive where the partition can't be seen. This third option isn't particularly attractive because I haven't got a drive large enough to put the image on and can't afford to purchase one.

I really need some help with this because the data is critical and needs to be worked on yesterday. :)

ron

Well, I've solved the issue by borrowing a dual 500mhz Mac and putting the drives into it. Apparently the additional computation capability is enough to thrash through the job. It's not done yet but it's progressing along nicely.

ron