Memory leak?
Posted: 29 Jul 2021, 06:26
Hi,
I am trying to recover a 3TB drive from a disk image created with ddrescue. I have already recovered 99.9% of the files with another program which restores files names and folder structure by using the MFT. However, due to the fact that I appear to have a slightly damaged MFT, I need to 'carve' my disk to recover and track down the few remaining files. I am attempting to use Photorec for this purpose.
I am working on an Ubuntu 20.04/Gnome 3 system and reading and writing to two different NTFS partitions during the recovery. Ie, my damaged drive was NTFS and I am saving the files to an NTFS partition.
Your program appears to have a memory leak as the longer it runs, the more sluggish my system becomes until the computer becomes nearly completely unresponsive.
I assume this is a known issue as I found this: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9775&p=29975&hilit= ... eak#p29975
I have tried saving the files to an EXT4 partition... however, the result was the same.
Is this the same problem that I am having? Has this been fixed yet?
At the present time, I cannot run a carve to completion. I know I can shut down my system and resume the recovery. Is it safe to do this by simply logging out of Ubuntu (which seems to be the only way I can escape from my unresponsive system) or will I lose the file that Photorec was working on when I exited?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I am trying to recover a 3TB drive from a disk image created with ddrescue. I have already recovered 99.9% of the files with another program which restores files names and folder structure by using the MFT. However, due to the fact that I appear to have a slightly damaged MFT, I need to 'carve' my disk to recover and track down the few remaining files. I am attempting to use Photorec for this purpose.
I am working on an Ubuntu 20.04/Gnome 3 system and reading and writing to two different NTFS partitions during the recovery. Ie, my damaged drive was NTFS and I am saving the files to an NTFS partition.
Your program appears to have a memory leak as the longer it runs, the more sluggish my system becomes until the computer becomes nearly completely unresponsive.
I assume this is a known issue as I found this: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9775&p=29975&hilit= ... eak#p29975
I have tried saving the files to an EXT4 partition... however, the result was the same.
Is this the same problem that I am having? Has this been fixed yet?
At the present time, I cannot run a carve to completion. I know I can shut down my system and resume the recovery. Is it safe to do this by simply logging out of Ubuntu (which seems to be the only way I can escape from my unresponsive system) or will I lose the file that Photorec was working on when I exited?
Thanks in advance for your help.