Richard Shaw wrote:
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Raymond C. Rodgers
<sinful622@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sinful622@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB
stick that I've been using on my notebook for several months
stopped responding so I did a hard reset of the notebook thinking
that it'll just reboot and everything would be fine.
As usual, I was wrong. On boot, I now drop into a recovery shell
with a "good luck" message. Apparently, I'm not the first one to
discover this (see
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/28 ). While I'm
not so anxious to fix the installation, I would like to try to
recover my files from the overlay image, but I'm not sure how to
go about this. It's not critical that I recover these files, but
it would be nice.
I was hoping that I could just mount the image like most other
disk images, but that didn't seem to work. Does anyone have any
suggestions on where I can find information about recovering the
files, or have direct answers for me? Is it even possible with
standard tools?
Thank you,
Raymond
Sorry, you're more than likely out of luck. The overlay is not
"mountable" as it doesn't record whole file changes but rather block
level changes. One thing I did was as I got things working well,
updates I cared about, installed programs that didn't come with the
live image, I copied the overlay to the hard drive so when things went
south, I could at least get back to a "restore point".
Richard
Thanks Richard, that's what I needed to know. Fortunately, there wasn't
any significant data in the overlay; the most important thing there were
some notes I had made about configuring Apache with subversion and
getting mod_pgsql (I think that's what it's called) up and running as
well. Useful information but not critical.
Thanks for your response!
Raymond
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