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HFS+ Rescue / -s1 taking forever
« Last post by nucl3arGzus on Today at 01:48:34 »Greetings, friends.
I'd like to clarify from the start that I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Linux and command lines.
I had a Mac long ago, and I made some backups in external hard drives. Unfortunately, the only backup I made of all my photos where done in a single 320GB drive. Thing is, it seems to be corrupt, because I can't mount anywhere.
I'm a Windows user, but a friend of mine suggested I try linux to recover this hdd, and since I wanted to do a fresh install of my OS, I decided to go with Ubuntu first to recover it. I'm using Ubuntu version 20.04.2 LTS x64.
I have 2 SDD and 1 HDD in this machine. The first time I tried HFS+ rescue, I used only my 120GB SSD. Which was stupid, since my external drive is 320GB.
After 2 days of blood sweat and tears, I managed to reach -s3, only to find my SDD completely full. I had to abort hfsprescue.
I formatted the drive again, and this time I also formatted my second 480GB SDD as ext4 to put the recovered files there. It took me another day to figure out how to make hfsprescue work with my 2nd drive.
Finally it's working!
Except, it's moving painstakingly slow. The first time I ran -s1 (when I only had the 120GB for this), it took me 2h30 to complete that step. In the first 10 minutes it listed all 39900 and some files.
This time, it's been over an hour and I'm at 0.16% with only 17412 files. (it took 15 minutes to move the first 0.03%, and another 40 minutes to start showing any files)
I have no idea if I'm doing something wrong.
I aborted the scan once (after 30 minutes and only 0.06%), restarted my pc, changed the usb port, and resumed hfsprescue. It's as slow as before.
I don't know if this means anything, but here's the packages I've installed after this fresh install:
I don't really remember everything I did the first time I got it right, 'cause I was completely lost and trying everything. The only thing I remember I had done was to intall something to read APFS (because that's what I thought was the drive's file format)
I there anything I can do to speed this process? Is the second SDD a problem?
Any insights are appreciated.
I'd like to clarify from the start that I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Linux and command lines.
I had a Mac long ago, and I made some backups in external hard drives. Unfortunately, the only backup I made of all my photos where done in a single 320GB drive. Thing is, it seems to be corrupt, because I can't mount anywhere.
I'm a Windows user, but a friend of mine suggested I try linux to recover this hdd, and since I wanted to do a fresh install of my OS, I decided to go with Ubuntu first to recover it. I'm using Ubuntu version 20.04.2 LTS x64.
I have 2 SDD and 1 HDD in this machine. The first time I tried HFS+ rescue, I used only my 120GB SSD. Which was stupid, since my external drive is 320GB.
After 2 days of blood sweat and tears, I managed to reach -s3, only to find my SDD completely full. I had to abort hfsprescue.
I formatted the drive again, and this time I also formatted my second 480GB SDD as ext4 to put the recovered files there. It took me another day to figure out how to make hfsprescue work with my 2nd drive.
Finally it's working!
Except, it's moving painstakingly slow. The first time I ran -s1 (when I only had the 120GB for this), it took me 2h30 to complete that step. In the first 10 minutes it listed all 39900 and some files.
This time, it's been over an hour and I'm at 0.16% with only 17412 files. (it took 15 minutes to move the first 0.03%, and another 40 minutes to start showing any files)
I have no idea if I'm doing something wrong.
I aborted the scan once (after 30 minutes and only 0.06%), restarted my pc, changed the usb port, and resumed hfsprescue. It's as slow as before.
I don't know if this means anything, but here's the packages I've installed after this fresh install:
- build-essentials
- zlib1g-dev
- openssl
- hfsprog
- hfsplus
- vim
I don't really remember everything I did the first time I got it right, 'cause I was completely lost and trying everything. The only thing I remember I had done was to intall something to read APFS (because that's what I thought was the drive's file format)
I there anything I can do to speed this process? Is the second SDD a problem?
Any insights are appreciated.
