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Recovering an ext4 filesystem with corrupt journal
I have a hard drive that seems to have developed some kind of hardware problem in the journal. This prevents the drive from being loaded. Running mount -r -t ext4 /dev/sda5 /mnt/root results in the ...
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How to make data-recovery very-very hard or impossible for Unix -computer before reselling?
I resell my Thinkpad and I want to make sure its old content in the harddrive is not readable. The Thinkpad has now Debian -installed but I sell it as-is so no OS needed. How can I can rewrite the ...
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Bad superblock after server crash
My server (CentOS 6) crashed, and it now kernel panics on boot. It's currently using a mdadm RAID1 array with two 1TB drives.
vg_server2422-LogVol01 is /
vg_server2422-LogVol00 is Swap
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What is the fastest way to write all sectors on a drive?
The goal in my case is not to securely erase data, but simply to force sector reallocation by the drives firmware.
I have a drive that has had a few file corruptions. It seems to be due to getting ...
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Create recovery medium from Windows 7 recovery partition
Many laptops are delivered with Windows 7 recovery partition (but without CD or DVD) which takes place on the harddrive that could contain some Linux distribution or serve for data storage.
I don't ...
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saving data from a failing drive
An external 3½" HDD seems to be in danger of failing — it's making ticking sounds when idle.
I've acquired a replacement drive, and want to know the best strategy to get the data off of the dubious ...
