Ville M. Vainio asks: > I have a btrfs partition, that has got corrupted in interesting > fashion (probably power outage after dumping lots of data on the drive).
> btrfsck doesn't detect any errors (i.e. the utility doesn't seem to be > that useful). I noticed that MeeGo 1.1.90 has a rather old version of gparted and wonder of the other FS tools may be a few releases behind. The situation is a bit odd, as btrfs itself is so bleeding-edge, and may well be handled poorly even by the newest tools. Clearly you'd expect btrfsk to work, though If it were my data on the line, I'd boot from a systemrescuecd (which can be a USB stick btw) and try an assortment of file system diagnostic and repair tools before I'd give up. Just because btrfsck doesn't work doesn't mean that another tool won't. The latest systemrescuecd should have an assortment: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page System tools included * GNU Parted: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more). * GParted: GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library. * Partimage: popular opensource disk image software which works at the disk block level * ddrescue: Attempts to make a copy of a partition or floppy/Hard Disk/CD/DVD that has hardware errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy. * FSArchiver: flexible archiver that can be used as both system and data recovery software * File systems tools (for Linux and Windows filesystems): format, resize, and debug an existing partition of a hard disk * Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions. * sfdisk: saves / restores partition table (and more). * Test-disk: tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others Good luck! - Alison Chaiken MeeGo Technical consultant Nokia Mobility Solutions Sunnyvale CA 650-279-5600 [email protected] http://exerciseforthereader.org/ _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
