Hello, I am trying to recover data from a damaged ext4 filesystem. Using TestDisk I am able to see the folder structure and filenames and I can recover some data. I can also see data using debugfs -c (catastrophic mode). But I can not mount the filesystem in the normal way.
My question is how is TestDisk able to mount the filesystem internally? Is there some mount option used by TestDisk?
14TB ext4 damaged filesystem...how does TD mount it?
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