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: Read-only, offline, and on a copy – the three rules of safe VMFS recovery.

| Command | Purpose | |---------|---------| | vmfs-fuse | Mount a VMFS partition via FUSE (user-space) for read-only access | | vmfsfsck | Check and validate VMFS filesystem metadata (read-only) | | vmfsrestore | Experimental tool to copy files from VMFS to another location | Step 1: Identify the VMFS Partition Use lsblk or fdisk to find the correct partition (type 0xFB for VMFS). vmfs-tools

sudo mkdir /mnt/vmfs sudo vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb2 /mnt/vmfs -o ro After mounting, you’ll see a standard VMFS directory structure: : Read-only, offline, and on a copy –

/dev/sdb1 Linux swap /dev/sdb2 VMFS (0xFB) sudo vmfsfsck /dev/sdb2 Step 3: Mount Using vmfs-fuse Create a mount point and mount read-only: vmfs-tools

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Example output:

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