[ydl-gen] FileSystem Remount Readonly Issue - Help Please

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Dene:

I became very interested in your problem because of past work I was involved
in.  However, I did some research for you which, I hope, you discover to be
useful as I found informative and provocative.

This link is probably below your level but it does provide a nice explanation
of the ext3 format:

http://linux.sys-con.com/node/117909?page=0,0

As a strategy leading to a solution you may be more interested in the following
article which references a link to tools, both of which abide by various
incarnations of the open source concept:

1.  The Sleuth Kit - a set of forensic quality analytical tools.
2.  Foremost - developed by US Air Force Office of Special Investigations

The link to that discussion which introduces these tools is located here:

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1902/1

All the best...

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:46:56 +0100
Dene Stringfellow <support at ridgedale.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone please help? A user has just inadvertently deleted a folder 
> of work from an SMB share stored on an ext3 partition on a YDL 3.0 
> system running on an Apple G3 B&W tower. I have just unmounted the 
> partition with a view to remounting the partition as readonly in an 
> effort to try to recover the data, as I found the overnight backup 
> failed last night!
> 
> However when I try any of the following mount commands:
> 
>     mount -o ro,remount /home/Lnx_CAD2
> 
>     mount -o remount,ro /home/Lnx_CAD2
> 
>     mount -t ext3 -o remount,ro /dev/sdb5 /home/Lnx_CAD2
> 
>     mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdb5
> 
>     mount -o remount,ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb5 /home/Lnx_CAD2
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
>     mount: /home/Lnx_CAD2 not mounted already, or bad option
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dene

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