[opensuse] Re: Restore filesystem without losing data?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:49:38 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Stephen Berman [01-28-14 15:46]:

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:32:05 +0100 Per Jessen wrote:

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Stephen Berman wrote:

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An external hard disk of mine became corrupted, and in an effort to save the data on it I dd'd it to another hard disk. Both disks were formatted in Yast (openSUSE 13.1) with a single ext4 partition. But after using dd, now the filesystem is gone from the second disk,

Yes, you've created a copy of the corrupted disk.

I feared as much. Is there any way to save the data (including the filesystem) from a corrupted partition (aside from already having a backup of it)?

I tried ddrescue on a faulty win7 laptop w/o success and found it a lengthy process time wise.

That doesn't sound very encouraging... Steve Berman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org