Posts Tagged recovery
Fixing a mangled NTFS partition: success
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on April 21, 2014
A follow-up from kyl191.net/2012/08/rebuilding-a-partition-table-after-failed-resize/ Almost two years on, Correcting errors in the Master File Table (MFT) mirror. Correcting errors in the master file table’s (MFT) BITMAP attribute. Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. My drive is back! And seemingly OK! I’m celebrating by setting up a Python […]
Recovering a broken F18 installation
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on September 6, 2013
For some reason (possibly a broken F17 upgrade which moved /lib around?) there were a bunch of empty files in /lib. So F18 refused to boot, with error messages like “/lib/libsystemd.so:0 :File too short” I discovered yum doesn’t like chroots: Kept on getting a message regarding build_time_vars missing. (Spoiler: This was actually Python!) I also […]
Rebuilding a partition table after failed resize
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on August 27, 2012
So. When I decommissioned my NAS, I moved stuff off the drives incrementally. My RAID5 media partitions were the first to get nuked, and I reformatted that partition on one of the drives as an NTFS partition, for use on my desktop. I then moved my pictures off the RAID 6 onto that NTFS partition, […]