Re: ways to restore data from crashed disk

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Jaap Struyk wrote:
> Eric Sandeen schreef:
> 
>> For starters, is the file really that big?  (9397895168 bytes?)
> 
> dd_rhelp /dev/hdd4 hdd4.img
> xfs_repair hdd4.img
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> superblock read failed, offset 103376846848, size 2048, ag 11, rval 0
> fatal error -- Gelukt (gelukt is dutch for sucses or done)
> 
> The image is 92G. big but my original filesystem was about 120G. but the
> 92G is about the size of the data that was on the disc.

when you are talking about sizes, do you mean space used (du) or max
offset (ls -l?)  max offset should be the same for your image file as
for your original device... 120G.

-Eric

> dd_rhelp /dev/hdd4 hdd4.img info:
> - Jump pos : 96365061.0 - max file size : 156019623.0
> - Biggest hole size :  119309126 k - total holes : 0k
> - xferd(succ/err) : 36710498.0k(36710496.0k/2.0k)
> - EOF is not found, but between 36710498.0k and 156019623.0k.
> ALL your data has been dd_rescued !!