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Sorry -- it's a USB device so the drive letter has changed as I've |
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moved the drive around. |
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My friend threw a theory out there -- maybe the beginning of the |
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partition is incorrect on the drive? The drive originally had an NTFS |
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partition. By blowing away the beginning of the drive and then |
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rewriting the partition table, maybe the kernel was using the original |
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"beginning" location of the NTFS partition which *may* be incorrect |
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for the beginning of the reiserfs /dev/sdX1 partition. I did *NOT* |
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reboot after making changes to the partition table (nor did I |
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disconnect / reconnect the drive). |
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Is this possible? |
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I'm 99.99999% sure this drive is not defective. There has to be some |
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way to mount this partition as it was cleanly unmounted and the data |
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copied over with no issues when I was originally doing it. |
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Isn't there a way to search for a superblock on the drive and then use |
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that when attempting to mount the partition? |
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-james |
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 24 August 2010 15:46, James <jtp@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Yep, positive. Just checked through my history: |
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>> |
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>> mkreiserfs -f /dev/sdd1 |
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>> mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup |
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> |
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> Hmm ... if you have made a fs on sdd1, why are you trying to mount |
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> sdf1 in your first post? |
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> |
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> ... or is sdd1 now being recognised by udev as sdf1? |
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> I am not sure I can suggest anything better than what you have already |
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> tried. I have recovered umpteen reiserfs corruptions with no loss of |
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> data so far, by running reiserfsck --fix-fixable, or --rebuild-tree. |
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> However, none of these problems were due to a problematic drive or USB |
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> cable - your case may be different and recovery less successful. |
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> |
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> Of course, if you have storage space somewhere else it is always a |
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> good idea to use dd to image the partition first before you start your |
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> recovery attempts. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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