[Cialug] ddrescue + kpartx = bacon

[chris rheinherren]

The more details the better. I have a crashed harddrive that I would like
to try this out on.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this Dave,
>
> Did you use a particular distro -knoppix or rescue disk?
>
> Did you mount the image dd created with kpartx - did you need prior
> knowledge of the disk(partition sizes or filesystems in use)  to do that
> part?
>
> I'm always looking for faster and easier, not to mention - successful,
> ways of trying to recover things.
>
> -Nate
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:33 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] ddrescue + kpartx = bacon
>
> 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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