> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 23:26 -0400, serialhex@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi all, so I've filled out an awesome ID10T form this weekend (all >> starting with a forded update) and completely annialated my >> partitions... >> I was running btrfs and was wondering 2 things: >> >> 1) is there a tool to help me recover data from my fs? I don't have a >> backup of my partition table and so I have about 500GB of space where a >> few partitionns might reside... GPT partitions mind you > > One of the nice things about GPT is that it stores a backup partition > table in a second spot near the end of the disk. It may be possible to > recover it. > > Try running 'gdisk' on your drive, then hit 'r' to switch to recovery > mode. Try the 'c' recovery command to load the backup partition table > from disk. > More details and some other things you might want to try are at > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/repairing.html > i've already tried some of the recovery options... i'm going to try the MBR recovery later on, but i doubt that will work. i typically do a lot of the data recovery at the place where i work, but it's all windows-based stuff and thus very easy (i use a bunch of linuxy tools... because they rock!) unfortunately, i havn't found anything that will work with btrfs, which is why i was asking for direction for a fs-finder (scan the drive, look for data structures, pull out data) or what i need to learn to build one. i've never worked on something like that, but i wouldnt mind doing it (i'd need help of course, but that's what the community is for). :) > This wouldn't have been a major problem if you had backups in the first > place :) > -- > Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@xxxxxxxxxx> you know, i scold people for not having backups, and my latest backup is 3+months old... :'( being a hypocrite sucks!! :P thanks! Justin -- 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
