On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 11:10 PM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 10:11 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 11:55 AM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: >> > >> > 1. If you don't have a backup of important data, you should first use >> > 'btrfs restore' as I've described in previous emails. The fsck should >> > fix the problem, but there is a chance it makes things worse. No fsck >> > is guaranteed safe, because it's making changes to the file system. >> > >> >> Let me know if it makes more sense to use ddrescue instead of `btrfs >> restore`. > > > It's up to you. Both methods make a copy. Thats whats important. > > ddrescue will take longer and needs more space than just pulling out files > with btrfs restore. But if you're already familiar with ddrescue, that's an > advantage. >
Going with ddrescue then. I will try the fix after the backup has been created. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
