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Date:      Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:29:44 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A bit of offtopic: msdosfs recovery tool
Message-ID:  <20080713132638.S58331@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200807122249.03951.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <20080712204239.I58331@woozle.rinet.ru> <200807122249.03951.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

HPS> > I have CF card which failed somewhere very close to the beginning; I did
HPS> > copy by recoverdisk, and can find start of at least one of FAT copies
HPS> > (though can't be sure of its consistency); I can't find root directory yet,
HPS> > neither subdirs.
HPS> >
HPS> > So - it there any tool to automate/speed up such a process?
HPS> 
HPS> You are fortunately not the first one into that water ;-)
HPS> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
HPS> 
HPS> We should have this in ports. It is a pretty good utility!

Yes, it is bundled with sysutils/disktest. 


Actually, it recovers most of images perfectly - but only on second run, when I 
put cf image on tmpfs (!) 

On the first run, when image resides on ZFS, it locks up in zfs:lock somewhere 
in the middle, stumbling the whole machine :( I did not tried to reproduce the 
problem yet, though. 

Thank you for the tip!

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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