From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois-Rene Rideau Subject: Re: recovery of crashed reiserfs disk? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:20:11 +0100 Sender: Francois-Rene Rideau Message-ID: <20030120142011.GA4268@Kadath> References: <20030117221535.GA945@Kadath> <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115142.B21932@namesys.com> <20030118100157.C5575@humilis> <20030117221535.GA945@Kadath> <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115142.B21932@namesys.com> <20030117221535.GA945@Kadath> <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115724.GA946@Kadath> Reply-To: Francois-Rene Rideau Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030118115724.GA946@Kadath> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Ookhoi , Oleg Drokin , Xuan Baldauf , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Kisses to you all! dd_rescue did save the day indeed! And thanks to the -a option (sparse image), I didn't even have to empty my other disk completely before to recover data. /usr/src/local/dd_rescue/dd_rescue -b 32768 -B 512 -l dd_rescue.log -a -v /= dev/hdc4 hdc4.img mount -o loop -r hdc4.img /mnt -t reiserfs (However I persist that such an operation would be unnecessary if reiserfs -- and maybe linux in general -- had an option to mount a block device readonly with error =3D=3D blank). >> http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ [ Fran=E7ois-Ren=E9 =D0VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tu= nes.org ] [ TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System | http://tunes.org= ] God exists and I'm His Prophet. And He says: "Don't you believe in Me or in My Prophet, least you be doomed to go to Hell, for I gave you brains not to believe in things dogmatically and superstitiously, but to think rationally= ." -- Far=E9