On 14-05-10 06:12 PM, Brian van den Broek wrote:
Hi all,
I fear that this will end in tears.
My home partition on a Debian wheezy install is an encrypted LVM
volume. It is ext3. Earlier today, I had a weird message in a terminal
window about an attempt to write to a file in my /home tree failing
due to having a read only file system. On reboot, I end up with an
error message.
It is always the same answer from me :) Take an image then stop
accessing the drive. Boot from a liveCD then ddrescue it all into a huge
image, then attempt recovery on that.
With an image you can even (should) work on a copy of the image so you
can go back if something you do screws it up more.
If the drive is experiencing read errors fsck will often fail since it
can't resolve the problems. The more you try to use it the more you risk
losing it all.
You may be able to recover much of the data assuming some key areas are
not lost.
Good luck!
Jer
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