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thangalin

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Registered: 2023-09-08

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Read reiserfs partition

I'm looking to mount some old drives that used the defunct reiser file system.

Anyone have any working steps to do so using 6.16.8-arch3-1?

Thank you!

schard

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Re: Read reiserfs partition

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=303232

I suggest you use another distro for data rescue or build your own legacy kernel.

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frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Re: Read reiserfs partition

I'd boot an old live cd in Qemu/KVM. Pass through the reiserfs drive in readonly mode. Pass another writable drive to copy data to (or copy over network).

Basically like this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#I … ing_system for readonly, add readonly=on to the -drive options.

Helps if you're already familiar with Qemu, or any other virtualization that can do the same things really.

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: Read reiserfs partition

I would not try to mount the live drives - rather dd-clone them into images and work on them
given they're reiserFS they're old hence should be rather small and you may have enough space to insge them
then go the VM route and boot some old early-2010s live whoch should have the required driver
then extract them via smb/nfs/(s)ftp