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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman writes: |
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>> I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, |
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>> not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I |
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>> apologize if it is a duplicate). |
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> I don't think so. |
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>> If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about fixing/mounting |
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>> this, I will be forever in your debt. Thanks. |
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> Before doing anything further with it, you should create an image of your |
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> dying drive and analyze that instead. And create a 2nd image, in case you |
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> mess up the first one while repairing it, and the drive really died in |
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> the meantime. |
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> dd if=/dev/sdf of=/mnt/sdf.img |
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> unplug drive |
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> cp /mnt/sdf.img /mnt/sdf.img2 |
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> OR |
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> gzip -c /mnt/sdf.img > /mnt/sdf.img.gz |
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> You can then try photorec from app-admin/testdisk, but reiserfs is not |
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> really supported. But this looks promising: |
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> http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments |
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Hi, |
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Thanks, to both who suggested making a dd image of the disk before |
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doing anything else. That is definitely a smart path and I will do |
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that, as soon as I buy another hard drive large enough. (It is a 320gb |
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drive and i only have spare 120gb drive and around same free space on |
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my windows vista box, and only a few gigs free on my linux box). |
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TigerDirect has a 1tb drive for $79.99 USD after rebate, so that seems |
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like a good deal. I will use it for recovery (hopefully) and then |
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format and give it as an xmas gift. :) |
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it is XFS not Reiser, and XFS is not even mentioned by the PhotoRec |
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site but it's worth a shot. If it doesn't include filenames it may be |
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almost worse than losing it (then I'll have to categorize and name |
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them all ... ugh :P) |
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The good news is that I defragmented the files on it just days ago, so |
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at least they should be contiguous. however the vast majority of the |
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space is video which will reduce the likelihood of it being contiguous |
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if it's a 1gig+ file size. |
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As to why I had XFS on an external drive... there is no reason. It was |
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an empty drive and I was using it to experiment with different FS and |
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it happened to be formatted as XFS when I decided to use it for |
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"temporary" storage. Until recently it was full of MAME roms and TV |
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shows and things like that which would be easily replaced :P of course |
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it waited until it had personal files before breaking... it's a law of |
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hard drives. |
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On Google I saw about this Windows program called UFS Explorer that |
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claims to be able to recover from XFS; from the description on the |
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site it sounds too good to be true (recover anything from anywhere, |
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basically)... I have not found any info about it other than the site |
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http://www.ufsexplorer.com/ |
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Years ago when I had a similar problem in a JFS drive I found some |
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shareware JFS recover that scanned the whole disk and recovered |
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absolutely everything that was not on a bad sector... it was the best |
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$15 ever spent. In fact I purchased it twice just because I was so |
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happy. :) |
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Paul |
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