From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
To: Louis Erickson <lerickson@rdwarf.net>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Erased start of voulme...
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:14:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050114071442.GE9517@favonius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501131658460.28732@holly.rdwarf.net>
Louis Erickson wrote (ao):
> I don't know how it happened, but the start of the /var partition of
> one of the machines I run has gotten itself zeroed out. Only the first
> little bit - 4k or so - is nulls, then a large amount of very
> plausible data appears.
>
> I can't get reiserfsck to even think this is a reiserfs volume - the
> program doesn't think this is a reiserfs volume any more.
What arguments did you use? What version of reiserfsck? And what
filesystem?
> Is there any chance of getting the data back off of this disk? Can
> reiserfsck be told to look harder and recover more deeply or
> something? Or is this a lesson in why backups are important?
_And_ it is a lesson why backups are important :-)
> I'm currently running dd from the mangled partition to a file to be
> able to try some things without losing my only copy of the data. If
> there's anything special I have to do to make that work, please let me
> know.
Good start.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-14 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-14 1:03 Erased start of voulme Louis Erickson
2005-01-14 7:14 ` Sander [this message]
2005-01-14 12:25 ` Alex Zarochentsev
2005-01-14 12:32 ` E.Gryaznova
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2005-01-14 16:23 Louis Erickson
2005-01-15 2:49 ` E.Gryaznova
2005-01-15 11:51 ` Sander
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