Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Jean-Pierre André wrote: >> Martin Mokrejs wrote: >>> Hi Jean-Pierre,
[...] >>>> You should have dumped the beginning of /dev/sdc5 to locate >>>> an NTFS partition with the fields related to the geometry of >>>> the drive left unfilled. >> >> [...] >> >>> Aha. How? Via dd with offset=4357349376-1 ? >> >> Either : >> >> dd if=/dev/sdc5 bs=512 count=1 | od -t x1 >> >> or (provided 4357349376 does not get truncated) : >> >> dd if=/dev/sdc skip=4357349376 bs=512 count=1 | od -t x1 >> >> or : >> >> dd if=/dev/sdc skip=544668672 bs=4096 count=1 | od -t x1 | head -n 32 > > I did this form the hosting Linux-3.10.78 kernel (as was the smartctl > and other commands > in my previous emails, just to avoid potential issues with VirtualBox): > > vostro ~ # dd if=/dev/sdc5 bs=512 count=1 | od -t x1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00219365 s, 233 kB/s > 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > * > 0001000 > vostro ~ # dd if=/dev/sdc skip=4357349376 bs=512 count=1 | od -t x1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00157466 s, 325 kB/s > 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > * > 0001000 > vostro ~ # dd if=/dev/sdc skip=544668672 bs=4096 count=1 | od -t x1 | > head -n 32 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, 0.00156452 s, 2.6 MB/s > 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > * > 0010000 > vostro ~ # So, either /dev/sdc5 has not been formatted, or something is overflowing somehere... Regards Jean-Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel