Jim Reith wrote:
On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote:
I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my
other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that
and then copy
the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running
I'm certainly not an expert but when I hosed my system in a less
drastic way I booted up knoppix and used it to mount my old drives
to copy off whatever I needed. Search for a directory called
mythconverg and then pull out all the .myd files and that should get
you the database. Even if you can't get all of the files the
recordings and videometadata tables are the most important ones for
getting you back to where you were before your crash.
mythconverg doesn't seem to be found when I do a "du | grep -i
converg". I've got a lot of stuff remapped to Lost and Found. I seem
to have at least some intact structure but it won't boot off the
partition so I've booted off the KnoppMyth CD and exited to the
prompt. I've mounted the partition and I'm poking around manually.
Where's the directory where these would be located?
/var/lib/mysql
yeah, I found that out on the KnoppMyth live CD I was using. fsck
from that was segfaulting so I followed another suggestion and
downloaded and ran "Recovery Is Possible" and managed to get fsck to
run with that to completion. It must have been a high level inode
that got roached as most of the filesystem got remapped to
lost+found. /var isn't even a directory 8^( It's there but an actual
file rather than a directory. I've been using grep and find but I'm
not having a lot of luck.
really not having a lot of luck. /etc is missing, /var is missing,
I'm not finding a lot of files in the lost+found directory. life is
not good. I managed to find my ivtv config file and I'm still poking
in a few other directories but it's not real promising. i found some
of the log files and I guess there were some database issues 3-4 days
in advance of the failure.
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