On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:36:08PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
My father's hard drive ist kaput. The root partition had a hardware failure and there's no way on this green earth we will ever recover the filesystem information. But this partition had tons and tons of pictures on it. It is vital that I get them back.* So I believe I am forced into the stream-the-bits-and-look-for-EXIF-data trick. Or however that works. I believe we've discussed this before, and I intend to have a go at the archives.
Another approach with reiserfs is to use ddrescue to copy the entire partition to another drive (do this before you try anything to recover) (or file), and run resierfsck --rebuild-tree on the file or partition. It'll recover pretty much anything on the disk that still has meta data, in absolutely horrible filenames, but most of the files themselves will be intact. It does pretty well, but if the bad blocks are directory nodes, you'll lose the tree structure. But, it's a lot better than trying to find picture data embedded in the data, especially since reiserfs isn't all that good at writing contiguous chunks. Then get a new harddrive, and format it with something other than reiserfs :-) David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
