Recovering with DDRescue Cannot Complete (write error: Read-only file system)

Posted by c00lryguy on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by c00lryguy
Published on 2012-11-13T02:18:34Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 5:03 UTC
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I'm trying to recover a corrupt VDI using vdfuse to mount the VDI and using dd_rescue to rescue the borked partition.

dd_rescue seems to be working fine but once it reached about half of the partition, it just STOPs and gives the following error:

ddrescue: write error: Read-only file system

Wait.. what? It suddenly turns the FS it is writing the recovered partition to into a read-only file system. Well... why? Will I never be able to finish this? What's going on?

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