Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM [solved]

2014-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Well, i got my data back. Rstudio did help, only the naming isn't intuitive. Once i spotted the partition i had to browse it's tree for the first awkwardly named directory (same size as the partition though) and scan it. Then i started seeing familiar names and had to browse another tree of weird n

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Search for a live media including ext4magic. Keep in mind to mount read > only. I've been either trying to recover unmounted; or mounting readonly, yes. Not much success in finding a recovery distro with ext4magic, maybe there'll be other tool

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 15:25 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > My next bet would've been ext4magic but it's only available in testing > (my host is stable), and i don't really want to [...] Search for a live media including ext4magic. Keep in mind to mount read only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I had an ext4 partition accessible via samba share and one day that share became empty. I considered goofing up in Windows, but then found out that there were a lot of warnings in dmesg. The partition was not set to be fsck-ed and was made available via a Xen guest. I did start running