Pau Iranzo wrote: > I installed Ubuntu on my girlfriend's laptop using btrfs as a > filesystem. But a few weeks ago something happened: the system > wouldn't boot and always show these messages: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120126/btrfs/IMG_20110313_122119.jpg > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120126/btrfs/IMG_20110313_122125.jpg > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120126/btrfs/IMG_20110313_122143.jpg
The hard drive is broken. This would have happened at the same point in time regardless of btrfs or not, and regardless of Linux or not. > The problem is that there is now way to mount that partition and all > the analysis tools don't give any information. I know there is no fsck > for btrfs, so it is just a shame for me, because my girlfriend is > really angry at me for this. > > Foremost is not able to recover files neither. > > Could anyone help me on this? I don't mind if the system does not > start, but I need to recover some files (pictures basically). Take out the disk from the machine. Get a USB-adapter. Prepare for running dd_rescue on another Linux system. Hook up broken drive. Run dd_rescue to make a copy of the disk that you can work on. Disconnect broken drive. Every second it is powered the chance to recover data decreases. Only power it up when you must, and when you are well prepared to extract complete contents from the disk. Try to analyze how the btrfs is broken. Try to fix it. Mount and recover data. Meanwhile buy new hard drive and reinstall a system so your friend has a working computer. //Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
