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NVX expansion considered harmful
Background A volume scan after expansion killed everything sending me a 2.2MB email full of "corrected" errors while in fact moving everything to lost+found potentially corrupted. Thus, I wanted to kn...
Just an FYI in case people are looking at this - if your filesystem fails after fsck post expansion and won't mount (eg your shares aren't available), and fsck is still continuing to report a whole tonne of errors - you may be able to get access to your data again using:
which worked for me to mount the filesystem read-only, despite the superblock errors and the like. All my data was intact, despite the fact that files that fsck said had doubly-linked inodes and other errors were occurring during the check.
Still no word from Netgear it seems, despite more and more people hitting the same issues.
mount -t ext4 -o loop,ro,noexec,noload /dev/c/c /mount/
which worked for me to mount the filesystem read-only, despite the superblock errors and the like. All my data was intact, despite the fact that files that fsck said had doubly-linked inodes and other errors were occurring during the check.
Still no word from Netgear it seems, despite more and more people hitting the same issues.
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