[DNG] Distrowatch Devuan poll do-over

The Distrowatch poll posted by Jim Murphy a few days ago - https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20160816.141551.cded4448.en.html - went sideways this morning. It was archived with results from another unrelated poll. I emailed to let them know and suddenly the odometer was back to zero and

Re: [DNG] GRUB shell

> On August 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM fsmithred wrote: > > On 08/17/2016 07:09 AM, aitor_czr wrote: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > On 08/17/2016 12:32 PM, Peter Olson wrote: > >> What does "e" plus tab key twice do? > >> > > > >> > >Is there some way I could try

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: > Your right, even with the ro flag the mounting pc would try to repair the > filesystem. For more information and the solutions see > http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/Forensic_Live_CD_issues. Well that's a facepalm moment. Very

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:48:39 +0200 "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote: > > Not sure, but could you try to also mount the disk with the noatime > > option. I don't know if ro implies noatime. > > I remember an article in german "Linuxmagazin" ~ 10 Jears ago where it said > that

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

Am Donnerstag, 18. August 2016 schrieb Didier Kryn: > Le 18/08/2016 16:59, Simon Hobson a écrit : > > OT, but there seem to be a few people who understand such in-depth stuff > > here ;-) > > > > I'm in the process of recovering (with ddrescue) files of a failing drive - > > no backups as "it's

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

On 18-08-16 16:59, Simon Hobson wrote: OT, but there seem to be a few people who understand such in-depth stuff here ;-) I'm in the process of recovering (with ddrescue) files of a failing drive - no backups as "it's only TV" recordings and I can't afford the disk space anyway. It's going

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

Le 18/08/2016 16:59, Simon Hobson a écrit : OT, but there seem to be a few people who understand such in-depth stuff here ;-) I'm in the process of recovering (with ddrescue) files of a failing drive - no backups as "it's only TV" recordings and I can't afford the disk space anyway. It's

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

To maximize the probability of succeeding to read the disk, it is often suggested to first attempt to create an .iso file of any partitions you want recovered. In the case of failing to read a partition, an attempt to read all the disk sectors saving them to an .iso file is usually made. dd can be

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

Rob Owens wrote: > I don't know the answer to your read-only question. But having done some > data recovery in the past, I've found that attaching the drive via USB and > sitting the drive in the freezer during recovery can help in situations like > this. I have

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: > OT, but there seem to be a few people who understand such in-depth stuff > here ;-) > > I'm in the process of recovering (with ddrescue) files of a failing drive > - no backups as "it's only TV" recordings and I

[DNG] OT: true read-only disk

OT, but there seem to be a few people who understand such in-depth stuff here ;-) I'm in the process of recovering (with ddrescue) files of a failing drive - no backups as "it's only TV" recordings and I can't afford the disk space anyway. It's going better than I expected with most of the