New user's registration have been closed due to high spamming and low trafic on this forum. Please contact forum admins directly if you need an account. Thanks !

How do I extract files from "storage"?

Got problems with your B2 or B3? Share and get helped!
Post Reply
rjakobsson
Posts: 22
Joined: 27 Oct 2011, 16:45

How do I extract files from "storage"?

Post by rjakobsson »

Hi,
since I've not been able to access my B3 for a while, I'm on the path to extract the files from "storage". When mounting the internal hard drive on to a mac using Paragon ExtFS, it isn't recognizing "storage" as a folder. It seems like it's locked. As my linux-fu is weak, how do I locate and rescue my files?
Stryker
Posts: 56
Joined: 17 Oct 2013, 11:03

Re: How do I extract files from "storage"?

Post by Stryker »

You're on a standard install of the B3 system, right?

The storage partition is by default using an ext4-filesystem inside an LVM volume. You cannot mount that directly with an ext-mounting tool, because you need to deal with the LVM layer first.
I don't know if there's any software for mac that can do both at the same time.

You might want to try booting a live-Linux system or virtual machine and then mount the storage-partition and the destination device.
Gordon
Posts: 1461
Joined: 10 Aug 2011, 03:18

Re: How do I extract files from "storage"?

Post by Gordon »

Storage is an LVM, you need to discover and mount the volumes inside it.
rjakobsson
Posts: 22
Joined: 27 Oct 2011, 16:45

Re: How do I extract files from "storage"?

Post by rjakobsson »

Thank you very much for the responses.
When mounting it to a linux filesystem, everything except the

Code: Select all

/home/storage
folder looks ok.
The

Code: Select all

/home/storage
is nowhere to be found :( .
The files are still there (I can rescue them using PhotoRec), but the folder seems to be messed up somehow. Is there some way to restore it?
Post Reply