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<H2><A NAME="sec-prep-chg"></A> <A NAME="s6">6. Preparing to change inodes directly</A></H2>
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<P>My advice? Don't do it this way. I really don't think it's wise to play
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with a file system at a low enough level for this to work. This method also
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has problems in that you can only reliably recover the first 12 blocks of
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each file. So if you have any long files to recover, you'll normally have
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to use the other method anyway. (Although see section
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<A HREF="Ext2fs-Undeletion-12.html#sec-easier">Will this get easier in future?</A> for additional
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information.)
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<P>If you feel you must do it this way, my advice is to copy the raw partition
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data to an image on a different partition, and then mount this using loopback:
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# cp /dev/hda5 /root/working
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# mount -t ext2 -o loop /root/working /mnt
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<P>(Note that obsolete versions of <CODE>mount</CODE> may have problems with this. If
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your <CODE>mount</CODE> doesn't work, I strongly suggest you get the latest version,
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or at least version 2.7, as some very old versions have severe security
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bugs.)
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<P>Using loopback means that if and when you completely destroy the file
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system, all you have to do is copy the raw partition back and start over.
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