On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Raymond C. Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB stick that > I've been using on my notebook for several months stopped responding so I > did a hard reset of the notebook thinking that it'll just reboot and > everything would be fine. > > As usual, I was wrong. On boot, I now drop into a recovery shell with a > "good luck" message. Apparently, I'm not the first one to discover this (see > https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/28 ). While I'm not so > anxious to fix the installation, I would like to try to recover my files > from the overlay image, but I'm not sure how to go about this. It's not > critical that I recover these files, but it would be nice. > > I was hoping that I could just mount the image like most other disk images, > but that didn't seem to work. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I > can find information about recovering the files, or have direct answers for > me? Is it even possible with standard tools? > > Thank you, > Raymond > Sorry, you're more than likely out of luck. The overlay is not "mountable" as it doesn't record whole file changes but rather block level changes. One thing I did was as I got things working well, updates I cared about, installed programs that didn't come with the live image, I copied the overlay to the hard drive so when things went south, I could at least get back to a "restore point". Richard
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