On Thursday 10 September 2020, deloptes wrote:
> William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> > I intend to try all other avenues for data recovery, before I try
> > performing surgery on the hard disk itself. That is a last option, I
> > think.
>
> ok, but if you use the badblocks command to identify potential bad block,
> you could then easily get the filesystem mounted.
>
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That's a good point. Mount it as a readonly.
Wouldn't that work. You might not even need to run an fsck.
That's how it works with JFS. 

Kate