photorec looping/stuck

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akhi
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photorec looping/stuck

#1 Post by akhi »

Hello;

### Linux, Ubuntu 18

Issue; Photorec keeps looping around the same sector.

I've read other topics and followed with the answer: viewtopic.php?p=26455#p26455

Deleted every recovered sector and left the latest line. In my case ;

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cat photorec.ses 
#1621924409
/dev/sdb partition_gpt,255,blocksize,1024,fileopt,options,paranoid,keep_corrupted_file_no,mode_ext2,wholespace,search,status=ext2_on,1705935920,inter
1706005926-7814037167
But keeps looping . Taking a look at the "top/iotop" I can see it's writing data of 4k , but actually nothing is written, and just keeps looping.

Can I jump to a bit far ahead sector? In case of yes, are there specific numbers that I should keep in mind while trying? I kept a backup copy of photorec.ses with all recovered sectors just in case.

Thanks for the support.

recuperation
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Re: photorec looping/stuck

#2 Post by recuperation »

Which version do you use?

akhi
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Re: photorec looping/stuck

#3 Post by akhi »

recuperation wrote: 25 May 2021, 13:12 Which version do you use?
Version 7.0

The output is stuck ( it doesn't even try sectors or anything ) . Restarted multiple times, this is output of a just made restart

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Disk /dev/sdb - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB (RO)
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
     Unknown                        0 7814037167 7814037168 [Whole disk]


Pass 0 - Reading sector 1705996288/7814037168, 0 files found
Elapsed time 0h02m07s - Estimated time to completion 0h07m34

recuperation
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Re: photorec looping/stuck

#4 Post by recuperation »

Use 7.2 WIP.

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