On September 30, 2011, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: > On 9/28/11 1:13 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:12:58 +0200 "Marcin M. Jessa"<lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 9/26/11 11:31 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > >>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:05:38 +0200 "Marcin M. Jessa"<lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> On 9/26/11 12:18 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > >>>>> Do you remember what filesystem you had on 'storage'? Was it ext3 or > >>>>> ext4 or xfs or something else? > >>>> > >>>> You're giving me some hope here and then silence :) > >>>> Why did you ask about the file system? Should I run fsck on the LV ? > >>> > >>> You already did run fsck on the LV. It basically said that it didn't > >>> recognise the filesystem at all. > >>> I asked in case maybe it was XFS in which case a different tool would > >>> be required. > >> > >> Looks like I didn't remember correctly. I ran testdisk and it reported > >> the file system to be XFS. What would you suggest now Neil? > > > > Presumably > > > > xfs_check /dev/fridge/storage > > > > and then maybe > > > > xfs_repair /dev/fridge/storage > > > > but I have no experience with XFS - I'm just reading man pages. > > That didn't work so I decided to give photorec a spin and so far it > could find and recover lots of files [1]. > Why the heck is photorec able to do so but the normal file system fixing > tools are just useless? The file system metadata was trashed, and photorec looks at the data only, looking for file headers and trying to pull out contiguous files. > > [1]: > Disk /dev/dm-0 - 5368 GB / 5000 GiB (RO) > Partition Start End Size in sectors > No partition 0 10485759999 10485760000 [Whole disk] > > > Pass 2 - Reading sector 1506591634/10485760000, 843 files found > Elapsed time 10h16m59s - Estimated time for achievement 61h17m10 > txt: 445 recovered > exe: 198 recovered > mpg: 62 recovered > swf: 33 recovered > tx?: 33 recovered > gif: 25 recovered > gpg: 19 recovered > bmp: 5 recovered > gz: 4 recovered > riff: 4 recovered > others: 15 recovered -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
