Recover data from broken RAID 1 drive
peterPetersonling asked: I need to save files from a Buffalo NAS Linkstation with two physical drives that is not working anymore (2TB each, Raid 1). Error message says: The bad …
Diagnosing missing logical volume
Ryan Germann asked: I set up an Open Media Vault server with 4 physical discs, a single physical volume and single volume group, and a single logical volume, all called …
photorec photo recovery software not seeing my mounted filesystem – trying to use photorec to recover lost jpegs
Peter Jirak asked: What is my situation? I am working in a Dev Ops capacity for a service that manages jpeg files online. We had an unfortunate deploy and our …
full /etc/ recovery from git
stvn asked: I have a CentOS 6.9 server. The full /etc directory was under version control. I accidentally ran ‘git rm -R’ on it. The server stopped working right away, …
Need help recovering files after mounting new volume
Fibericon asked: So I used the guide in this answer to mount a new volume to /var/www: Allowing apache to access multiple volumes under AWS However, after doing it, my …
DD broke my whole partition – boot failed: not a bootable disk . Any way to recover it?
viniciusmunich – AssabetTech asked: Im kind of freaking out here, if anyone can help me please help me… This happened to a Windows 2012 KVM virtual machine. I had a …
Recover data after lvreduce on "/"
James Feiner asked: I accidentally ran lvreduce on / instead of “/home” on a RHEL 5.9 system that unfortunately had a lot of code that was not backed up, and …
How to recover data from a corrupted ext3 partition?
GetFree asked: A server of mine had a drive failure of some sort which caused the OS (CentOS 5) to crash and stop working (it refuses to boot). So we …
Scan raw block device data for known file types on linux
masi asked: I’m looking for a way to search a raw block device for file type patterns on linux. The partition type is known and the partition table exists. I …
Testdisk won’t list files for an ext4 partition inside a LVM inside a LUKS partition
Mario asked: I have accidentally deleted a file that I want to recover. The partition is an ext4 partition inside an LVM partition that is encrypted with dm-crypt/LUKS. The encrypted …