Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB crucial file recovery
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:41:42
Message-Id: 20160830084133.736bbcc4@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] USB crucial file recovery by Grant
1 On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:51:19 -0700, Grant wrote:
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3 > # ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sdb usb.img usb.log
4 > [...]
5 > Ah, I got it, I just needed to specify the offset when mounting.
6
7 Tht's because you ran ddrescue on the whole stick and not the partition
8 containing the filesystem.
9
10 > Thank you so much everyone. Many hours of work went into the file I
11 > just recovered.
12 >
13 > So I'm done with NTFS forever. Will ext2 somehow allow me to use the
14 > USB stick across Gentoo systems without permission/ownership problems?
15
16 That depends on whether you use the same UID on each system. If not,
17 mounting with umask=0 will make everything world writeable.
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21 Neil Bothwick
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23 Windows95: <win-doz-nin-te-fiv> n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical
24 shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded
25 for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand
26 1 bit of competition.