Re: Reiser4 file recovery

[Yiannis Mavroukakis <jander@darthvader.us>]

Christian Iversen wrote:

>On Monday 10 October 2005 17:06, michael chang wrote:
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>>On 10/10/05, Yiannis Mavroukakis <jander@darthvader.us> wrote:
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>>>Hello :-)
>>>
>>>I had an LVM setup of three disks, and one of them went belly
>>>up..Obvious thought is, use some
>>>distro like R.I.P to reduce the volume to two disks and try and salvage
>>>what I could ..unfortunately reiser4 fsck could not find a superblock
>>>(surprise surprise the disk that died had it) nor could it build the FS
>>>because it cannot find the metadata..Under normal circumstances, I would
>>>not bother but my wife's mp3's are in those disks and she will have my
>>>head if I don't figure out some way to restore them :) Any suggestions?
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>>>
>>Maybe you want to use RAID 5 or something instead of LVM, because of
>>parity, in the future.
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>>I suggest you run Spinrite (grc.com, ~$50 IIRC) on the bad disk from a
>>floppy or CD-ROM in DOS (the program makes images for you in Windows,
>>if you have a working partition, or you can get images from the site
>>IIRC once you've bought a copy) and see how much is recovered
>>(assuming it's just bad sectors or something).  Re-add it to the LVM,
>>recover to a seperate media, and then convert the whole thing to a
>>RAID (maybe via tar?).  I know it's not a free solution, but data
>>recovery is nearly impossible w/o paying in one way, shape, or form.
>>It's easier to have backups.
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>As usually, Gibson "Research" is skimpy on details, so I'm not entirely sure 
>if spinrite is anything more than a disk imager. If not, just use the free 
>(gratis && libre) dd_rescue program instead. It will save you $50.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys...however I should have clarified that I 
no longer have the dead disk (long story...) so I am kind of stuck with 
what I have...Am I stuffed ?

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