Hugo I did try the dangerdonteveruse branch and thats the error btrfsck --repair gave me. Looks like the btrfs-restore command may work (thanks!). And yes I do have backups for the important data - I had some other data on there which would need to be d/l again.. I don't dabble that much with the kernel - this is a straight ubuntu which I regularly do their updates - Can I advance the kernel beyond ? If your recommending this I will definitely look into it (since I dont want a repeat of this to occur) Does this article describe the update well enough ? http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/03/how-to-install-linux-33-kernel-in.html Thanks for the help Nz > > btrfsck doesn't fix anything. It just checks the FS and tells you > that there's something wrong (which it just did). If you're feeling > very very brave, there's the "dangerdonteveruse" branch of the > btrfs-progs tools in cmason's git, which might fix things. > Alternatively, it might fuck up your filesystem so badly there's no > way you can retrieve any remaining data from it. Your choice. > >> My kernel 3.0.0-16-generic, any hope for this ? Or is he dead jim ? I > ^^^^^ Old, old, old. It's a bit late now, but you should > really keep up with the latest kernels. That should help > minimise this kind of event. > >> don't have any snapshots of the partition. > > btrfs snapshots wouldn't help here. LVM snapshots would, of course. > > There's a restore tool that may allow you to copy off any data > that's not backed up (you *do* have backups, right? for an > experimental filesystem?). See the wiki at [1]. > > Hugo. > > [1] http://btrfs.ipv5.de/index.php?title=Restore > > -- > === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === > PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk > --- "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, --- > debriefed or numbered. My life is my own." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
