<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Raymond C. Rodgers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sinful622@gmail.com">sinful622@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB stick that I've been using on my notebook for several months stopped responding so I did a hard reset of the notebook thinking that it'll just reboot and everything would be fine.<br>
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As usual, I was wrong. On boot, I now drop into a recovery shell with a "good luck" message. Apparently, I'm not the first one to discover this (see <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/28" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/28</a> ). While I'm not so anxious to fix the installation, I would like to try to recover my files from the overlay image, but I'm not sure how to go about this. It's not critical that I recover these files, but it would be nice.<br>
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I was hoping that I could just mount the image like most other disk images, but that didn't seem to work. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find information about recovering the files, or have direct answers for me? Is it even possible with standard tools?<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Raymond<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote><div><br>Sorry, you're more than likely out of luck. The overlay is not "mountable" as it doesn't record whole file changes but rather block level changes. One thing I did was as I got things working well, updates I cared about, installed programs that didn't come with the live image, I copied the overlay to the hard drive so when things went south, I could at least get back to a "restore point".<br>
<br>Richard<br></div></div></div>