From the
extundelete website:
Quote:
extundelete was the first program able to restore both the contents and the file name of a deleted file on an ext4 partition.
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So it seems that it is possible...just looking for a little help. Here's where I am now -
I used mdadm to start the device - since it's raid1 I chose to start with 1 of the 2 devices, to be safe:
Code:
sudo mdadm --stop /dev/md0
sudo mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sdb5
mdadm then reported that it had started /dev/md0 with 1 drive (out of 2)
I tried to unmount /dev/md0 - but the system told me it was not mounted.
I then ran extundelete
Code:
sudo extundelete /dev/md0 --restore-all
And got the following:
Code:
extundelete: failed to read-only open device "/dev/md0": Error code 2133571347
A quick search turned up
this thread - which tells me:
Code:
Error code 2133571347 is "EXT2_ET_BAD_MAGIC"
This means, there is no valid signature for the superblock.
either, the superblock is corrupt, then you can try to open the file system
with help of the superblock copies. see options "-b blocknumber " an "-B
blocksize"
or
You have made some wrong during the creation of the file system image.
or
You have created an image of the entire disk, not a copy of the file system.
In this case you must specify offset options for losetup.
I don't think my superblock is corrupt - but I'm stuck as to how to proceed.
On a whim I tried ext4magic - it gave me the following error:
Code:
Error 13 while opening filesystem
I'm stuck - any ideas to help me push forward?