Back in 2012 I created a 7.5GB file named
SD-card.2012.dd-bs1024-1.ec6a4994f4148912abb199505b98f01g
My guess is that I ran dd
on an 8GB SD card from one of my cameras. Why?
Can't remember.
I confirmed that ec6a4994f4148912abb199505b98f01g
in its filename is its md5sum, so the file is intact relative to whenever I added its sum to its name.
file
reports that is data.
partx
reports 'failed to read partition table'. never used partx before.
fdisk
reports 'doesn't contain a valid partition table'
sudo losetup -f <filename>
puts it at /dev/loop0 as reported by losetup -a
, but doesn't make any loop0pN, and my subsequent attempts at mount -t <type> /dev/loop0 <mount-point>
fail as above.
mount -o loop -t auto
fails, saying I need to specify the filesystem type. It also fails if I specify vfat or ntfs.
Seeking advice on how to proceed.
partx
andfdisk
report no partition tablephotorec
the loop device? orhexdump -C | less
,binwalk
, ...hexdump -C
; I see a camera model (which is one of mine) and sensible dates and times. I don't have photorec in any repositories, but I'll look into that if it comes down to that.