>>>>> "James" == James Sadler <[email protected]> writes:
James> Hi all, I stupidly removed an XD card from my card reader under James> Linux without unmounting it first. When I put the card back in James> the machine, most of the pictures were missing. I'm guessing James> the filesystem is corrupt. In theory the photos themselves are James> still there. Does anyone know how I could restore these under James> linux? I am running Ubuntu Jaunty. Hmmm. Were you copying files *to* the card? If so they may never have got there (they'll still have been in Linux's filesystem cache). If you know the filenames fsck.vfat can recover the files. As always, first make a complete image copy of the filesystem in case of errors: dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/var/tmp/image bs=1M (/dev/sdc1 is the damaged partition, could be something else). Use strings to find file names: strings /var/tmp/image Choose the ones to undelete, then fsck.vfat -rv -u /name/of/file/to/recover.jpg /var/tmp/image (I've never tried to undelete more than one file at a time, but check the manpage). Then mount it with mount -oloop /var/tmp/image /mnt and copy the files off: cp /mnt/name/of/file/to/recover.jpg /tmp If this all doesn't work, the XD card's image is still intact for another go with different method. Peter C -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia A university is a non-profit organisation only in the sense that it spends everything it gets ... Luca Turin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
