Re: [SPAM] Re: urgent help need! disk partition info lost

["Jérôme Poulin" <jeromepoulin-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Paul L <ninegua-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ok, based on the info so far, I've successfully recovered my files!
>
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>
> 6. Now it seemed no way to proceed, and I decided to try my luck by
> modifying nilfs_search_super_root(...) function to do a partial check
> instead of a full check (by changing the flag from 1 to 0). Compiled,
> installed, and rebooted.
>
This is where I'd like to add, the filesystem should always allow to
mount read-only whatever there is corruption or not, if there is bad
bad trouble it should mount read-only and ignore the cleanerd, isn't
that right?

> It then all worked out from there. I immediately plugged in a USB
> drive, and copied all my files to the backup. Only one file seemed to
> have been damaged during the incident. I didn't bother to check if all
> the prevoius checkpoint on the nilfs2 partition worked and just went
> ahead and re-partitioned and re-formatted the SD card.
>
> I must thank Jan de Kruyf for the tremendeous help! Thank you all very much!
>
> Now I'm just going to celebrate the magical recovery from the loss of
> months' hard work!
>
>
I guess you're going to make a backup every week from now :)