Possible to Recover LiveUSB Overlay Image?
Raymond C. Rodgers
sinful622 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 04:27:14 UTC 2008
Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Raymond C. Rodgers
> <sinful622 at gmail.com <mailto:sinful622 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB
> stick that I've been using on my notebook for several months
> stopped responding so I did a hard reset of the notebook thinking
> that it'll just reboot and everything would be fine.
>
> As usual, I was wrong. On boot, I now drop into a recovery shell
> with a "good luck" message. Apparently, I'm not the first one to
> discover this (see
> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/28 ). While I'm
> not so anxious to fix the installation, I would like to try to
> recover my files from the overlay image, but I'm not sure how to
> go about this. It's not critical that I recover these files, but
> it would be nice.
>
> I was hoping that I could just mount the image like most other
> disk images, but that didn't seem to work. Does anyone have any
> suggestions on where I can find information about recovering the
> files, or have direct answers for me? Is it even possible with
> standard tools?
>
> Thank you,
> Raymond
>
>
> Sorry, you're more than likely out of luck. The overlay is not
> "mountable" as it doesn't record whole file changes but rather block
> level changes. One thing I did was as I got things working well,
> updates I cared about, installed programs that didn't come with the
> live image, I copied the overlay to the hard drive so when things went
> south, I could at least get back to a "restore point".
>
> Richard
Thanks Richard, that's what I needed to know. Fortunately, there wasn't
any significant data in the overlay; the most important thing there were
some notes I had made about configuring Apache with subversion and
getting mod_pgsql (I think that's what it's called) up and running as
well. Useful information but not critical.
Thanks for your response!
Raymond
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