Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:29:44 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A bit of offtopic: msdosfs recovery tool Message-ID: <20080713132638.S58331@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <200807122249.03951.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20080712204239.I58331@woozle.rinet.ru> <200807122249.03951.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: HPS> > I have CF card which failed somewhere very close to the beginning; I did HPS> > copy by recoverdisk, and can find start of at least one of FAT copies HPS> > (though can't be sure of its consistency); I can't find root directory yet, HPS> > neither subdirs. HPS> > HPS> > So - it there any tool to automate/speed up such a process? HPS> HPS> You are fortunately not the first one into that water ;-) HPS> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec HPS> HPS> We should have this in ports. It is a pretty good utility! Yes, it is bundled with sysutils/disktest. Actually, it recovers most of images perfectly - but only on second run, when I put cf image on tmpfs (!) On the first run, when image resides on ZFS, it locks up in zfs:lock somewhere in the middle, stumbling the whole machine :( I did not tried to reproduce the problem yet, though. Thank you for the tip! Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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