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Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

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[Almost Solved] Mount NAS for use with photorec

Hi there,

I deleted some files on my NAS (WD MyBook World Edition) and want to give photorec a try - nothing serious but would be cool if it works.

Now the software should find the drive where my problem lies:

Normaly I mount the NAS via sudo mount /mnt/mybook/

fstab entry:
//IPC/Public /mnt/mybook cifs users,noauto,noatime,ip=192.168.1.200,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/root/.creds,uid=1000 0 0

How can I mount the NAS for temporary use with photorec dev/....

Regards

Last edited by Flylow (2011-01-07 12:45:49)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: [Almost Solved] Mount NAS for use with photorec

photorec doesn't work on mounted volumes, it works on the raw device.  You'd have to run it on the NAS itself somehow.

Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Almost Solved] Mount NAS for use with photorec

You're right. I'll connect the drive directly with an SATA/USB Adapter.

Flylow

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Registered: 2010-08-06

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Re: [Almost Solved] Mount NAS for use with photorec

Just wondering, if there is a faster way than photorec for my purpose? I've bought an USB enclosure for the drive now - Because it's an nearly full 2 TB drive the recovery takes ages (about 120 hours).

There are only 2 GB of free space on the drive and the deleted pictres are most likely in thes 2 gigs. Is there a programm (something for Windows is fine too) which let me recover only undeleted files and doesn't do a full recovery (have already limited photorec to jpg only)?

FS is XFS.

Regards

Last edited by Flylow (2011-01-07 12:44:58)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

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Re: [Almost Solved] Mount NAS for use with photorec

PhotoRec is filesystem-agnostic; it just performs pattern matching on your whole hard drive.  That would take a while for a whole 2GB drive.  According to the XFS developers, there isn't really a solution for XFS-specialised undelete.