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Lazza / RecuperaBit

A tool for forensic file system reconstruction.
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What'll happen if there's not enough space during restore? #89

Closed ilos-vigil closed 3 years ago

ilos-vigil commented 3 years ago

First of all, thank you for creating this software and make it FOSS.

Here's my situation. I have about 2TB data on damaged HDD, but the partition of the -o OUTPUTDIR size is only about 1TB. My question are,

  1. What'll happen when the partition ran out of space during restoration process?
  2. If the software will crash or stuck, should i move file which already recovered (before the partition ran out of space) to another directory (i have another HDD & flash drive with smaller size) ?

Edit: In the end, i moved file which already recovered.

Lazza commented 3 years ago

If you fill up the drive I don't think it's going to end up pretty well. You are probably going to encounter an I/O error and see the program crash.

You might want to recover some directories instead of the whole tree at once.

ilos-vigil commented 3 years ago

Thanks for answering, i'll do that next time.