I recon it took me about 5 minutes to realise what I'd done, then I unmounted the volume. I don't think I wrote anything inbetween, but there were a few applications open at that time, so there might have been some i/o.
When you say 'by itself', you mean without the '-o 5'? I've tried that initially, but it run for a few hours with no output beside the initial 'Superblock...'. I realized I forgot to redirect the stdout which I thought that would be a good idea so I restarted it with '-o 5' (found some advice said that's the thing to do if it was the root subvolume that was deleted). Anyway, restarted it without '-o 5', let's see whether it makes any difference. Is there any indication on how long it should take? Just roughly, hours, days? I've got about 150GB of data on that partition I think. Also, is there supposed to be incremental output, or will it be one big wall of text once it's finished? As I said, when I tried before there was no output at all for hours, which seemed a bit strange. Thanks for your help! On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Markus Binsteiner <mak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It seems I've accidentally deleted all files in my home directory, >> which sits in its own btrfs partition (lvm on luks). Now I'm trying to >> find the roots to be able to use btrfs restore later on. >> >> btrfs-find-root seems to be taking ages though. I've run it like so: >> >> btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home -o 5 > roots.txt > > Uhh, just do btrfs-find-root by itself to get everything it can find. > And then work backwards from the most recent generation using btrfs > restore -t using each root bytenr from btrfs-find-root. The more > recent the generation, the better your luck that it hasn't been > overwritten yet; but too recent and your data may not exist in that > root. It really depends how fast you umounted the volume after > deleting everything. > > > > -- > Chris Murphy -- 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
