Re: Damaged super block / fs root

2011-05-31 Thread Dennis Bergmann
Hello Chris On 30.05.2011 21:03, Chris Mason wrote: How big is the FS? About 100 G on a 500 G partition. I would only like to recover some plain text files from it (source code), I don't need the partition to be mountable again. What command did you use to overwrite the super block?

Damaged super block / fs root

2011-05-30 Thread Dennis Bergmann
I have accidently damaged the first block(s) of a btrfs partition and can't mount it anymore. I can see that my data is still intact by running a command like: cat /dev/sda5 | hexdump -C | more Do any (experimental) tools exist which would allow me to recover the files? Thank you -- To

Re: Damaged super block / fs root

2011-05-30 Thread Dennis Bergmann
On 30.05.2011 18:12, Hugo Mills wrote: You can check whether it's likely to be of use by running btrfsck -s 1 on your filesystem. If it passes OK, then btrfs-select-super should be useful. Hugo. Didn't work, unfortunately. My btrfsck version is v0.19-35-g1b444cd-dirty and running