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timnas
Jan 20, 2017Aspirant
File system broken after power cut down
Recently, there were electrical works in my building and appartment that caused a power cut down. The beep of my UPS was probably to annoying for workers so they decided to unplug the NAS that was t...
timnas
Jan 31, 2017Aspirant
To be honest, I was expecting more something like
StephenB says: No worries buddy, your data are still there.
Just apt-get foo-barfs and mount a ext4 volume with offest 42.
Me : Dude, you're the guru among the gurus.It works like a charm.
Please accept my eternal gratitude. May I pay you with Beercoins?
Anyway, and at last, I was able to retrieve all my data from my 2 TB HDD just today.
I am now able to mount every partition:
- System (ext3 - 4GB)
- Restore? (can't remember - 512 MB)
- Data (ext4 - 1.8 TB)
But if I am now technically able to fix the booting issue of the NAS, I don't know what to start with.
I guess a serial console would help debugging the booting process, or a directly-connected display...
In last resort, I will buy a new HDD and proceed to a factory reset :(
StephenB
Jan 31, 2017Guru - Experienced User
timnas wrote:
StephenB says: No worries buddy, your data are still there.
Just apt-get foo-barfs and mount a ext4 volume with offest 42.Me : Dude, you're the guru among the gurus.It works like a charm.
Please accept my eternal gratitude. May I pay you with Beercoins?
Beercoins? You didn't say that before :smileywink:
Your situation looked delicate, I didn't want to offer advice that might backfire and make it worse. FramerV's suggestion on paid support seemed appropriate to me.
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