From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sander Subject: Re: Erased start of voulme... Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:14:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20050114071442.GE9517@favonius> References: Reply-To: sander@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Louis Erickson Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net