[Cialug] ddrescue + kpartx = bacon

[Scott Yates]

Saved to my evernote.  Thanks!


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:32 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Had to recover data from a crashed laptop drive. Some of the usual tools
> didn't work for me, I used ddrescue to grab the disk image, it took about
> 26 hours to recover a 320gb drive, about 7gb of the drive was not
> recoverable. Then I used kpartx to read the partition table & create the
> loop devices, mounted it and was able to recover the documents I needed.
>
> Saved my bacon.
>
> -dc
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