Re: reading an ex linux bcache disk

[Pavel Goran <via-bcache@pvgoran.name>]

Hello jdd,

Thursday, May 28, 2015, 1:08:21 PM, you wrote:

> Hello,

> I have the following problem.

> I used bcache on a computer with one hard drive and one small ssd.

> (openSUSE 13.2)

> this computer broke, it do not boot anymore. I could only recover the 
> hard drive that seems perfectly working - I can read all the partitions 
> but the bcache one.

> is there any way to read the bcache partition content? As far as I know, 
> the computer was shut down properly (it broke because somebody walked on 
> it :-).

You  can  access  the  contents  of  the  bcache  volume without using a cache
partition  at all. All you'll need is a kernel that supports bcache and one or
two  commands  from  the  terminal.  I don't have time to go into details, but
probably it will be something like:

echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda3/bcache/running

(Taken  from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bcache, you may want to look
there   or  at  https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt  for  more
information.)

Pavel Goran