From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yiannis Mavroukakis Subject: Re: Reiser4 file recovery Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:19:00 +0100 Message-ID: <434A8664.2060208@darthvader.us> References: <434A633C.6030507@darthvader.us> <200510101714.35937.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200510101714.35937.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Christian Iversen wrote: >On Monday 10 October 2005 17:06, michael chang wrote: > > >>On 10/10/05, Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: >> >> >>>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? >>> >>> >>Maybe you want to use RAID 5 or something instead of LVM, because of >>parity, in the future. >> >>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. >> >> > >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. > > > 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 ? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________