Re: btrfs recovery - solved for me

2017-01-31 Thread Michael Born
Thank you all for your help. Magically, btrfs-find-root worked today. (I attached the steps at the end) I don't think I changed anything. The btrfs-progs version is still 4.1 because I tried different tagged versions (starting from 4.9) from the cloned git repo. The btrfs-find-root on the

Re: btrfs recovery

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Born
Hi Gordon, I'm quite sure this is not a good idea. I do understand, that dd-ing a running system will miss some changes done to the file system while copying. I'm surprised that I didn't end up with some corrupted files, but with no files at all. Also, I'm not interested in restoring the old Suse

Re: btrfs recovery

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Born
Am 30.01.2017 um 22:20 schrieb Chris Murphy: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Michael Born <michael.b...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: >> The files I'm interested in (fstab, NetworkManager.conf, ...) didn't >> change for months. Why would they change in the moment I copy th

Re: btrfs recovery

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Born
Am 30.01.2017 um 21:51 schrieb Chris Murphy: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Michael Born <michael.b...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: >> Hi btrfs experts. >> >> Hereby I apply for the stupidity of the month award. > > There's still another day :-D > > > >

btrfs recovery

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Born
Hi btrfs experts. Hereby I apply for the stupidity of the month award. But, maybe you can help me restoring my dd backup or extracting some files from it? Before switching from Suse 13.2 to 42.2, I copied my / partition with dd to an image file - while the system was online/running. Now, I can't