[Cialug] ddrescue + kpartx = bacon

[Nathan C. Smith]

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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