[PLUG] Recovering as much as I can...
Eli Stair
eli.stair at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 23:26:59 UTC 2006
This has proven to be a valid and reliable method for me:
http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments
Interestingly enough, it was easier for find in Google than my
bookmarks ;) It's also got a new update/link for Foremost (haven't
tried it...) to recover data from a dd image. Sounds apropos for your
case.
/eli
On 3/14/06, Elliott Mitchell <ehem at m5p.com> wrote:
> >From: AthlonRob <athlonrob at axpr.net>
> > The drive boots the Linux kernel but errors with UnrecoverableError
> > messages as it attempts to mount the filesystem (ReiserFS 3). This
> > leaves me unable to get ANYTHING as everything was in the single FS
> > (of course). So I ask... what would you guys try and do to try and
> > get some of the data off the drive? There are tools, I think, that
> > will skip over the sections that error out on me, to try and get as
> > much of the data off as possible, but I've not used them before and
> > don't know for sure how I'd then try and get data off the partially
> > damaged filesystem image... last I read, Reiser wasn't exactly well
> > known for their recovery tools. :-\
>
> Galen got to it first, the most common tool is dd_rescue. I've also got
> my own tool that roughly mimics `dd`, but fixes the one problem for disk
> recovery.
>
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