Hello Andrew,

thanks for your time and help.

/dev/sda is the 2gb drive indeed.
/dev/sdb8 is the 100gb partition formally formatted in reiserfs. As you
said, probably it is not there anymore. never mind. it was empty anyways.

btw. is 'sarak' some directory on your pc? It sounds a lot like my name
which is spelled 'safak' :)

I guess the entire 2gb (should be) on the /dev/sdb8 partition since the
processes finished with no errors.

As you suggested I entered

sudo parted /dev/sdb8 unit B print
Warning: GNU Parted has detected libreiserfs interface version mismatch.
Found 1-1, required 0. ReiserFS support will be deisabled.
Error: /dev/sdb8: unrecognised disk label

returned: 1

Any ideas why this is? What to do? I would probably ddrescue the usb disk
again but it took a lot of time which I don't want to invest again. I don't
know what took so long to rescue 2gb but it was nearly two days.

Greetigs from germany,

Safak

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:43 PM, andrew zajac <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Safak.
>
> /dev/sda is the 2 gb drive?  And /dev/sdb8 is a 100 GB partition that you
> had formatted to Reiserfs?  Because that filesystem is not there anymore.
> You wrote the entire 2GB (including the partition table) to the sdb8
> partition.
>
> Whatever.
>
> I hope you didn't have anything there that you wanted to keep.  If you were
> expecting to write the image of the 2GB drive to a file, then you needed to
> mount sdb8 and image sda to a file there:
>
> mkdir /home/sarak/sdb8
> sudo mount /dev/sdb8 /home/sarak/sdb8
> sudo ddrescue /dev/sda /home/sarak/sdb8/image /home/sarak/sdb8/logfile
>
> Whatever.
>
> So your entire 2GB drive is on sdb8.  No problem.  Look at the partition
> table on it.
>
> sudo parted /dev/sdb8 unit B print
>
> (example output)
> Number  Start   End          Size         Type     File system  Flags
>  1      32256B  7950303231B  7950270976B  primary  fat32        boot, lba
>
> So the partition starts at 32256.  Mount it as a loop:
>
> mkdir mnt
>
> sudo mount -o loop,offset=32256 /dev/sdb8 mnt/
>
> ls mnt
>
> Good luck.
>
> Andrew Zajac
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 11/13/10, Şafak Ökmen <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Şafak Ökmen <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 2gb usb stick to reiserfs partition
> To: [email protected]
> Received: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 8:31 AM
>
> Hello list,
>
> I have rescued my 2gb usb stick in nearly two days to a 100gb blank
> reiserfs partition with these two commands:
>
> ddrescue -f -n /dev/sda /dev/sdb8 logfile
> ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sda /dev/sdb8 logfile
>
> since I did not know what to do next, I tried mounting /dev/sdb8 to
> look what's inside. But mount: you must specify the filesystem type. I
> was able to mount the blank reiserfs partition before ddrescue wrote
> on it. Can you help me?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Safak
>
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