From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: recovering from "rm -rf" Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:17:20 -0500 Message-ID: <42F3D760.7090008@slaphack.com> References: <42F3A08A.30102@planet.nl> <42F3A16D.6090306@namesys.com> <42F3C73B.9040808@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: michael chang Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com michael chang wrote: > On 8/5/05, David Masover wrote: > >>I've got a Reiser4 partition which I just moved (mv) a bunch of stuff >>off of, onto another drive. The other drive died immediately after. >> >>I'm trying to repair the other drive, and to find any backups, but is >>there a reasonable chance to recover from the good drive? Maybe force >>fsck.reiser4 to rebuild stuff... somehow? It's sort of the equivalent >>of an "rm -rf". > > > I have no idea what you're trying to say; can you identify your drives > by e.g. Drive A and Drive B? However, I've heard that Spinrite > (grc.com) is known to be pretty good at drive recovery, and supposedly > compatable with Linux partitions. Requires an i386 compatable > machine, and I believe you need Windows to write the diskette/iso > which you can boot the recovery system from. Haven't tried it though. I could do that, but this is Reiser4. Does anyone but Namesys support recovery from Reiser4 yet? > What are you trying to do? Format a broken hard drive so you can > write to it again, or recover data you deleted unintentionally? A Sort of both. Drive A is a 500 gig striped RAID. Drive B is a 200 gig IDE drive. I mv'ed all my data (about 100 gigs) from drive A to drive B. Drive B then had its power plug fall out (don't ask me how I managed that), I plugged it back in (stupid!) -- there was a spark -- drive B now won't spin up, and drive A is essentially "rm -rf"ed. Drive C is an 80 gig drive with a good, working install of Linux on it. I can throw a fully working Gentoo Linux system, and any recovery tools I can get for it, at Drive A. If I can't recover the data from Drive A, I will send Drive B to some recovery experts. If I can recover the data from Drive A, I will throw out Drive B and buy a replacement. > anyways, so you shouldn't use it). For all you know, the drive could > have died because the internals wore out/broke, or because your cable > died/broke/etc. I'm guessing that the internals did break, so I think that a recovery service would probably be able to recover 100% of my data (as an image), but only after replacing some parts, or even pulling the whole thing apart in a cleanroom. This would cost at least $300-500, and if it goes to the cleanroom, probably $700 and up. By the way, do you know any good data recovery services?