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Longtimer
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 Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:09 am Post subject: [Solved] Noob - want to add fuse-ext2 to SystemRescueCD |
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***Just a note that I found a work around and did not end up adding the the software to the CD***
I am trying to use the Gentoo based SystemRescueCD for data recovery from my 3 disk NAS RAID (Readynas NV). To do this I need fuse-ext2 however it is not part of the live CD. There are instructions for adding packages here: http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Customization/
But I can`t seem to get these instructions to work. I get an error at "chroot /mnt/custom/customcd/files /bin/bash" Is there a simpler way to get fuse-ext2 running? even if the package is not permanently made part of the CD image? BTW I am actually running it from a USB key.
A couple people on these forums have been able to do it on Gentoo but when a person says they "fetched" XYZ, or got it the old fashioned way I'm just do not know how to go about this.
Links to other success here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1049380-highlight-fuseext2.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1012560-highlight-fuseext2.html
Any help appreciated.
S.
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Noob - want to add fuse-ext2 to SystemRescueCD |
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| Longtimer wrote: | | I get an error at "chroot /mnt/custom/customcd/files /bin/bash" |
What's the error? Also, what does | Code: | | ls -l /mnt/custom/customcd/files |
produce?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Longtimer,
Welcome to Gentoo.
| Quote: | | I am trying to use the Gentoo based SystemRescueCD for data recovery from my 3 disk NAS RAID ... |
sounds like the beginning of a long sad story.
Tell the story so far and we may yet be able to help you get to a happy ending. fuse-ext2 may not be one of the steps along the way.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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My story:
I have an original Infrant ReadyNAS NV with 3 x 2.0 TB drives that went unresponsive. Drive 1 has a number of bad sectors but is decent, Drive 2 is good and Drive 3 is really bad. I have a backup from 2 years ago so my goal is to copy off anything modified or added after Jan 2016.
I started with SystemRescueCD, a Gentoo live CD, to clone the disks and I was hoping to carry on with the data recovery using this live CD.
Cloning went well and my next step is to access the VG then copy the files. This is a recipe that is supposed to make the drives accessible:
(1) sudo su
(2) apt-get install fuseext2
(3) apt-get install lvm2
(4) modprobe fuse
(5) vgscan
(6) vgchange -ay c
(7) fuseext2 -o ro -o sync_read /dev/c/c /mnt
That’s it!!!
You can now see the mounted files in the /mnt directory
lvm2 is already there so does not need to be installed but fuse-ext2 is not and apt-get is not part of the live CD. I tried to follow the instructions in the link above to install fuse-ext2 but do to errors and inexperience, cannot follow them through. I will try again and provide the error.
This morning I used a Linux Mint DVD and was able to access to the files using the the above recipe but ran into difficulty with the system being a little unstable. Also, I don't know how to get the LV so show up in the GUI file manager where I am a little more experienced. I'm thinking the more stripped down SystemRescueCD would be more stable and it would be nice to have a single disk if I or a friend needed to do this again.
Aside: can anyone provide a simple command line to copy all files and directory structure that are created or modified after a certain date. In DOS I would have used xcopy with a date filter but in linux it is not as straight forward. It appears I need to somehow combine cp or rsync with find but these concepts are a little new to me. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Longtimer,
to clone a drive with suspect bad sectors you need ddrescue.
That's not on the Gentoo live CD but it may be on System RescueCD.
You don't say what tool you used for the cloning.
As you don't mention mdadm, for software raid, it appears that either LVM provides the raid (it can) or you have used the hardware raid in the Infrant ReadyNAS.
Gentoo does not support apt-get, thats a package manager used by some binary distros.
All linux distros support ext2 anh ext3 natively so Fuse-ext2 is not required to read ext2 or ex3 on Linux.
System Rescue CD already has LVM.
So, boot System Rescue CD and you will be at a root shell prompt.
Your steps
(1) sudo su
(2) apt-get install fuseext2
(3) apt-get install lvm2
(4) modprobe fuse are not required.
| Code: | (5) vgscan
(6) vgchange -ay c |
should just work if c is the name of a volume group. That looks odd.
| Code: | pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay |
may shed some light on things.
Now look in /dev/mapper for your logical volumes.
On my live system I get. | Code: | $ ls /dev/mapper/
control host-packages ssd-olde--usr vg-home
guests-bluetest host-portage ssd-olde--var vg-local
guests-dmz--test host-root static-local vg-opt
guests-mail host-swap static-opt vg-packages
guests-master host-tmp static-portage vg-portage
guests-media--server host-usr static-root vg-tmp
guests-router host-var static-usr vg-usr
guests-web--server ssd-olde--local static-var vg-var
host-distfiles ssd-olde--root vg-distfiles |
With System Rescue CD, you can do | Code: | | mount -o,ro /dev/mapper/<lv_name> /mnt/gentoo |
You can now see the mounted filesystem in /mnt/gentoo
sync_read will slow things down, so don't use it unless you really need to. Then the mount command is
| Code: | | mount -o,ro,sync /dev/mapper/<lv_name> /mnt/gentoo |
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Longtimer
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you ND for your response. The commands seem to have worked up to the mounting of the drive where I get 'NTFS signature is missing'.. Any furhter advice?
| Code: | root@sysresccd /root % lsblk -o name,label,size,fstype,model
NAME LABEL SIZE FSTYPE MODEL
loop0 468.5M squashfs
sda 465.8G ST500DM002-1BD14
├─sda1 System Reserved 100M ntfs
└─sda2 465.7G ntfs
sdb 3.8G USB DISK 2.0
└─sdb1 SYS_RESCU 3.7G vfat
sdc 3.8G vfat UDisk
sdd 1.8T WDC WD20EFRX-68E
├─sdd1 2G ext3
├─sdd2 250M swap
├─sdd3 1K
└─sdd5 1.8T LVM2_member
sde 1.8T WDC WD20EFRX-68E
├─sde1 2G ext3
├─sde2 250M swap
├─sde3 1K
└─sde5 1.8T LVM2_member
└─c-c 3.6T
sdg 1.8T WDC WD20EARS-00M
root@sysresccd /root % vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "c" using metadata type lvm2
root@sysresccd /root % vgchange -ay c
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "c" now active
root@sysresccd /root % cd /dev/mapper
root@sysresccd /dev/mapper % ls
c-c control
root@sysresccd /dev/mapper % mount -o,ro /dev/mapper/c-c /mnt/gentoo
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/c-c': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/mapper/c-c' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
root@sysresccd /dev/mapper %
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I also tried
| Code: | | root@sysresccd /dev/mapper % mount -o,ro /dev/mapper/c/c /mnt/gentoo |
Here is the lvdisplay
| Code: | root@sysresccd /dev/c % lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/c/c
LV Name c
VG Name c
LV UUID Pj37iF-1F06-8Dzv-Nal7-6sfz-xxZn-5O9vZS
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time ,
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 3.63 TiB
Current LE 119090
Segments 2
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Rebooted and tried again but got a different error:
| Code: | root@sysresccd /root % pvscan
PV /dev/sdc5 VG c lvm2 [1.82 TiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdb5 VG c lvm2 [1.82 TiB / 0 free]
Total: 2 [3.63 TiB] / in use: 2 [3.63 TiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
root@sysresccd /root % vgchange -ay c
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "c" now active |
| Code: | root@sysresccd /root % mount -o ro /dev/mapper/c-c /mnt/raid
mount: /mnt/raid: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/c-c, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. |
| Code: | root@sysresccd /root % pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc5
VG Name c
PV Size 1.82 TiB / not usable 21.08 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 59545
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 59545
PV UUID RPTNFG-vsl4-m3vd-1l5k-v1Vx-WzIp-63JzYz
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb5
VG Name c
PV Size 1.82 TiB / not usable 21.08 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 59545
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 59545
PV UUID qXV7gH-XApF-XupM-CvrR-8rD2-M0D0-MRg9nj
root@sysresccd /root % vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name c
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 4
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 3.63 TiB
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 119090
Alloc PE / Size 119090 / 3.63 TiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID 484Bss-pejp-kKVE-dgtW-VYJh-UrS1-CLh6oz
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Longtimer,
| Code: | sdd
└─sdd5 1.8T LVM2_member
sde 1.8T WDC WD20EFRX-68E
└─sde5 1.8T LVM2_member
└─c-c 3.6T
sdg 1.8T WDC WD20EARS-00M |
lvm2 did its thing and it shows that you have a 3.6T volume made out of sdd5 and sde5 while sdg appears to not be used.
Is that what you were expecting?
When you did | Code: | root@sysresccd /dev/mapper % mount -o,ro /dev/mapper/c-c /mnt/gentoo
NTFS signature is missing. |
the kernel ran through all the filesystems it knows, with NTFS being the last one and printed NTFS signature is missing because nothing worked.
Either System Rescue CD is missing the filesystem you need or the filesystem you have is damaged, or both.
| Code: | | less /proc/filesystems |
will show the filesystems the kernel knows about.
Filesystems provided by loadable modules that are not loaded will not be shown.
You mentioned fuseext2, so we can remove some of the guesswork by telling mount to only try one filesystem.
| Code: | | mount -o,ro -t ext2 /dev/mapper/c/c /mnt/gentoo |
Try -t ext2 ext3 and ext4. The kernel has already done this so it won't work but the error messages on the screen and at the end of dmesg may be useful.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Well I've been rooting around the rabbit hole for a while now and I'm finally up for air. I mutinied and set up a live persistent USB with Mint 18 and was able to access the files. As we speak they are being transfered to another drive. The USB was very easy to setup using Windows software here: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
The key was to use "fuseext2". Not "fuse-ext2" and not "mount". It turns out that the SPARC versions of the ReadyNAS NV with version 4.x firmware use a non-standard 16k block size so fuseext2 is the only one that will play nice-ish. I still could not access the mounting with any GUI applications on Mint and it would lock up the LV if I tried. With my level of knowledge the only way out at that point was a reboot. Note that my original post I was looking for fuse-ext2 which was wrong. I am thankful you that we did not spend time with my request as it would have made the rabbit hole harder to get out of.
While the clues were there, it took a long time for me to put them together. On an unsuccessful mount, Mint gives some advice to check the dmesg using where I found this:
| Code: | | EXT3-fs (dm-3): error: bad blocksize 16384 |
Googling the message found someone with the same issue and that fuseext2 must be used to accommodate the nonstandard block size. With that change, it was off to the races and plodding through authoring the proper rsync and find commands to get what I wanted.
I still like the tool set on the SytemRescueCD but I don't think I am at the level to add the software required to the live CD. It is a shame that it is not easier as there are always new (or old) tools that come along a person might need or want.
Thank you very much for the time you spent considering my challenge. Just knowing there are knowledgeable people like you willing to help lowered the anxiety greatly.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Longtimer,
That's the problem with standards, there are so many to choose from.
extX supports 1k, 2k and 4k block sizes as standard.
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