ReiserFS and a dying hard drive
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:39:31 -0700, chadseo
I went through the dying hard disk a few weeks ago and retrieved all the data from it. Here's what I recommend based on my successful recovery.
1) DON'T MOUNT THAT DISK AGAIN. Install a new disk immediately and install whatever distro you like on it (if you have not already done so).
2) boot a live CD or your new install on a new disk.
3) copy the parbreastion(s) you want data from using a command of the form:
What else does it say along with just the number? Is there something about the sending IP address...
dd if=-dev-hdb5 of=backupname conv=noerrors conv=sync
This will copy the parbreastion of interest to a file. You need noerrors to skip past any bad blocks and you need sync to fill in bad blocks with zeros rather than just omit them.
4) now mount via loop the backupname file made with dd. You'll find that you can reiserfsck the file if you want, but it will probably tell you everything is fine. Just look through the loop mounted file system for the data you want. I recovered a 9 gb and a 14 gb parbreastion from a failing disk and retrieved every file in which I was interested.
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