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Recovering Linux Based File System

I have an HP Mediavault 2020 and there is some proprietary OS on the drives as explained in the link below.

http://www.k0lee.com/hpmediavault/diskformat/index.html

I've found the ReIser4 entry thru HexEdit at location ADBDBFC0

But unable to find the mount point.

I'm terrible with Linux and was hoping someone could lend some advice...especially the bash script at bottom of link. Please see the code snippet.

Can't determine how to run the code. This would hopefully find the correct location.

#!/bin/bash

i="0"
while [ $i -lt 80 ]
do
losetup -o $[ 512071732 - 65536 - $i] /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb
mount -r -t reiserfs /dev/loop0 /tmp/tmp
if (( $? )); then
{
        echo "could not mount";
        losetup -d /dev/loop0
}
        else
{
        echo "mounted using byte position: $[ 512071732 - 65536 - $i] ";
        exit;
}
fi;
i=$[$i+1]
done

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ajay_mhasal

Hi,

If you found the ReIser4 entry thru HexEdit at location ADBDBFC0 then try running following script and check for mount point at /tmp/tmp (you need create this dir if you dont have it already)

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#!/bin/bash

i="0"
while [ $i -lt 80 ]
do
losetup -o $[ 2914893760 - 65536 - $i] /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb
mount -r -t reiserfs /dev/loop0 /tmp/tmp
if (( $? )); then
{
echo "could not mount";
losetup -d /dev/loop0
}
else
{
echo "mounted using byte position: $[ 2914893760 - 65536 - $i] ";
exit;
}
fi;
i=$[$i+1]
done
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ajay-
my problem is HOW to run the script. I created the file using VI...but then don't know how to simply execute it ....yes, a true beginner.

Thanks

BTW...your live-cd recommendation was a great start to this annoying project :)

darrickhartman

First you need to make the script executable:

chmod a+x <scriptname>

Then execute it:

./<scriptname>

ajay_mhasal

Hi,

Thanks for the comment, Use following commands to run the script

# chmod 770 <script-name>

# sh <script-name>

OR

# ./<script-name>

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ASKER

got it....I tried it for a bit this morning. The offset may be wrong. It wasn't finding any mount points. I'll be looking at this later today.

Thank you

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