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Need some advice.
I came home today to a locked screen and a TTY line spitting out constant errors.
Was on Arch.
Installed Antergos to a free small SDD and trying to recover my 2 TB /home partition.
Gparted could not see /home mounted on /sdc or the / mounted on /sda though /sda for UEFI boot and swap showed up fine.
Currently running testdisk in deep search and will leave it running overnight. The quick search + write option did not help. Cannot mount the /dev/sdc1 partition.
If anyone went through something similar any advice is appreciated.
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Sure. I can do it when i get home.
(note i am on CET timezone)
IS your ID the same there ?
I can throw a few games/beers or even some cash your way :-P
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yeap my steam id is on my profile, I am on EET – Eastern European Time (Standard Time) zone.
Usually I come at night home due to work.
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Once you have backed up the data, you could attempt to fsck the partition.
I've done a fair amount of hard drive recovery myself over the years. Advise regular back-ups. Advise - don't keep using a broken drive (e.g. one on which SMART errors are growing.)
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Not yet
Cool. Will download and check it out
Was told to do a dd as soon as possible on other forums.
Will attempt to do so , but the problem is the broken disk is 2 TB and in a hurry the only large drive available in store I found is 4 TB. Can dd work around this ? OR is there something better ?
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https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/3/gnu-ddrescue-best-damaged-drive-rescue
Using ddrescue to clone from smaller drive to image on larger drive:
https://datarecovery.com/rd/how-to-clone-hard-disks-with-ddrescue/
(If you do the image, then obviously the larger drive should have a file system on it, and sufficiently empty space.)
Ddrescue is designed specifically to copy from a failing drive with bad sectors. If the drive itself is fine and it's just damaged logically, dd will do just as well.
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