On June 15, 2017 7:24:09 PM GMT+02:00, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >On 06/15/2017 10:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 06/15/2017 06:21:44 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> >[snip] >>> >> >> This looks like a hardware failure. You could try to use >sys-fs/ddrescue >> to recover all / most files. >> If this doesn't work as expected, you can try to use >app-admin/testdisk. >> >> Then you can format the drive and copy the files back. >> >> P.S. Have you used the "save eject feature" of Windows before >> disconnection the drive from your PC? >> >> (Cheap) USB sticks are by no means a safe data storage. >> >> If you don't change any data while the drive is attached to Windows >try >> using a stick with a write protection toggle. >> If you have to write to the drive from Windows it would be better to >> format it as NTFS which can be read/written on Linux. >> >> Helmut > >I don't really need any of the files that were on this USB stick. >I was trying to recover the ext4 file system on this USB but it didn't >work. > >I was under impression that ext4 file system was much better (not prone >to these kind of damages) but I was wrong. > >-- >Thelma
Ext4, and any other filesystem, is only as reliable as the implementation. Using a random, rarely tested, implementation is often a bad idea. Simply unplugging a USB drive can easily kill the entire filesystem. If I see a person simply pulling it out without ejecting first will never get one of mine... -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
