On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:15:14 -0600 "Paul Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Paul Hartman writes: > > > >> I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first > >> time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it > >> again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). > > > > I don't think so. > > > >> If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about > >> fixing/mounting this, I will be forever in your debt. Thanks. > > > > Before doing anything further with it, you should create an image > > of your dying drive and analyze that instead. And create a 2nd > > image, in case you mess up the first one while repairing it, and > > the drive really died in the meantime. > > dd if=/dev/sdf of=/mnt/sdf.img > > unplug drive > > cp /mnt/sdf.img /mnt/sdf.img2 > > OR > > gzip -c /mnt/sdf.img > /mnt/sdf.img.gz > > > > You can then try photorec from app-admin/testdisk, but reiserfs > > is not really supported. But this looks promising: > > http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments > > Hi, > > Thanks, to both who suggested making a dd image of the disk before > doing anything else. That is definitely a smart path and I will do > that, as soon as I buy another hard drive large enough. (It is a > 320gb drive and i only have spare 120gb drive and around same free > space on my windows vista box, and only a few gigs free on my linux > box). TigerDirect has a 1tb drive for $79.99 USD after rebate, so > that seems like a good deal. I will use it for recovery (hopefully) > and then format and give it as an xmas gift. :) >
I recommend GNU ddrescue over plain dd in this type of situation, since dd will stop at the first read error, and there's likely to be more good data after that. You could manually resume dd w/ skip & seek options, but that'd be very tedious; ddrescue makes it much nicer. I was able recover essentially all the data off my most recent dying drive w/ "ddrescue -vdD /dev/disk/by-label/usb_videos1 usb_videos1.ddrescue usb_videos1.ddrescue.log" Good luck, Conway S. Smith -- The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)
