Use the toolkit anyway. I recently recovered scads of data from my 7GB
NTFS partition even though it doesn't understand NTFS. The key is, I
pointed Lazarus at the partition device /dev/hda3 (actually a symlink in
the current directory) and it worked like a champ. Lazarus doesn't
understand *any* filesystem. It just reads raw data. Feed your ReiserFS
partition to it and it will turn things up for you. I promise. My specific
problem was I had specified the boundaries for my OpenBSD partition just
into the start of my NTFS partition. Unpacking X source overwrote all the
NTFS partition meta data so I knew all the data was there, just the NTFS
part was gone.
Some pointers:
I needed to have enough space to fit the entire dump from the NTFS
partition and then some. The indexing html files also take up room (unless
you just opt to not do that (I ended up throwing them away anyway)).
Running time for 7GB was around three days.
Swap usage went up to ~400MB (I created some temporary swap files just for
this and deleted them afterward)
Normal shell tools didn't like the blocks and www directories since the
quantity of files overloaded the globbing features. I wrote simple perl
scripts to shuffle things around instead. The key was to use
{open,read,close}dir instead of using any globbing. I may have the scripts
I wrote around somewhere and can post them to a server if you (or anyone
else) would like them.
Josh
c0ntempt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
12/31/01 02:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: Recovering Data from a damaged ( beyond repair ) ReiserFS
partition
I am in need of a program to recover data from my ReiserFS
partition. I currently can't read it because the partition is damaged
beyond repair. I tried already to recover the data via Coroners Tools
but it didn't support that type or partition. Please reply with ANY
program which is known for ReiserFS partition data recovery running
linux 2.4.16 kernal.
