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by pgreenwood
12 Nov 2016, 23:12
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Linux System Repair Best Practices
Replies: 3
Views: 3014

Re: Linux System Repair Best Practices

I went back to testdisk. Working from my "rescue" disk I changed the file type of the first partition to 82 swap and marked the second partition "P" as per /etc/fdisk from my salvaged data. I wrote the table via testdisk. Now fdisk and lsblk recognized the primary Linux partition as sd*1 and I was ...
by pgreenwood
12 Nov 2016, 20:41
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Linux System Repair Best Practices
Replies: 3
Views: 3014

Re: Linux System Repair Best Practices

my efforts to mount the local HDD fail
root@tester:/home/tester# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount: block device /dev/sda2 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: special device /dev/sda2 does not exist
root@tester:/home/tester#

Attempts to mount /dev/sda1 show the same thing. I think the first ...
by pgreenwood
08 Nov 2016, 18:11
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Linux System Repair Best Practices
Replies: 3
Views: 3014

Linux System Repair Best Practices

First of all, thank you for this awesome utility - TestDisk. I will make a contribution. I've read TestDisk step-by-step and I'm very grateful for the documentation provided and the support of this forum. Here's my story.

I planned to use a mythbuntu live disk to install mythbuntu onto a HDD using ...