Linux based disk recovery tool

[Pondlife]

Old NAS based HD is showing folders but no files and I'd like to get the data back.

Took it out of its chassis, put it in a PC and booted with an Ubuntu CD.

xfs_repair isn't doing anything, so does anyone know of an alternative for recovering data from an xfs drive?

Ta

Pondy

 

[stek]

Old NAS based HD is showing folders but no files and I'd like to get the data back.

Took it out of its chassis, put it in a PC and booted with an Ubuntu CD.

xfs_repair isn't doing anything, so does anyone know of an alternative for recovering data from an xfs drive?

Ta

Pondy

Was it raided?

 

[Pondlife]

Nope. Single drive only.

 

[stek]

Try mounting it on another Linux system and use debugfs though I have to say, I've never had much luck recovering stuff from Unix filesystems....

 

[petergriffin]

The one and only:
SystemRescueCd

 

[darrylmg]

Xfs is journal'd so the risk of corruption should be lower than some other FS.
Might be a silly question but you didnt rm any files?
You might need to look for an undelete tool instead of a corruption repair tool...

 

[Pondlife]

Xfs is journal'd so the risk of corruption should be lower than some other FS.
Might be a silly question but you didnt rm any files?
You might need to look for an undelete tool instead of a corruption repair tool...

"I" didn't rm anything. It's showing some of the folders but no files. xfs_repair gives a message about a bad superblock but can't find a secondary one.

Any undelete for xfs you'd recommend?

Ta

 

[darrylmg]

I've not had to use one on Linux before.

Is it definitely 1 disk partition on there?
Does "fdisk" show anything to indicate multiple disk partitions?